PREGNANCY DURING COVID-19
Pregnancy is a special time full of excitement and anticipation But for expectant mothers facing the outbreak of the corona -virus disease (COVID-19), fear, anxiety and uncertainty are clouding this otherwise happy time. A woman's body gets most vulnerable when she is carrying another life in her womb. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, it gets more important for women to take care of themselves if they are pregnant as the infection spreads through respiratory droplets, or getting in contact with the infected. Though, it is not that pregnant women are at a higher risk of contracting the disease. A recent study from The Lancet, tells that when a Wuhan based pregnant woman who was in her third-trimester contracted pneumonia due to coronavirus. However, the baby didn’t get infected and the mother got cured soon. The chance of passing the infection to the foetus was found to be very less with no recorded foetal abnormalities due to the infection of COVID-19 to the mother. ...