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studies show that pregnant women suffer a more pronounced response to the isolation and stress of covid-19, and one in seven experience depression and anxiety . forrester said getting support through postpartum counselling was crucial for her to successfully navigating the difficult months of new motherhood.
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the project, pregnancy through a pandemic , chronicles moments like attending ultrasound appointments alone, of losing a pregnancy at 13 weeks, without the comfort and support of family and friends, of anticipating appearing with a newborn when family and friends never got to share the pregnancy, and of emerging from the “cocoon” of isolation, strengthened and changed.
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