You can only have one support person — okay, that sucks but it’s better than none.

Social distancing means who knows when your family will be able to meet and hold your baby — that really sucks, my grandmother is dying and wants to meet the baby, but okay, thank goodness for FaceTime.

But now this? the hospital is requiring birthing mothers to wear surgical masks during the entire labor and not offering oxygen unless the baby really needs it. — TEARS. I have asthma and have had a hard time breathing my whole pregnancy...and when I have a hard time breathing I get anxious and it gets even worse. The idea of getting push back if I ask for oxygen, and the suffocating feeling of having a mask on when I’m supposed to be doing deep breathing to get this baby out...well, takes my breath away. In the grand scheme of things it’s nothing and I’ll have to be stronger than the situation and get over it...but I’m also super pregnant and scared so I just had to cry about it a little on the car ride home. 😕