Mother’s Day will be a lonely affair for new mums, who’ve already experienced isolation in a pandemic – yet the “gift” of their beautiful babies, spurs them on.
Lindsay Brady’s baby boy, Theo, is just six-weeks-old and he, like every baby born during Covid-19, has arrived into an uncertain world.
“There have been serious challenges,” Lindsay, a 38-year-old mother-of-three, from Castleknock, Dublin, said.
“My husband, Eoin, sat in the car in Merrion Square for six hours through the night, while I was in labour.
“I was right beside him in the National Maternity Hospital building. That was traumatic but for a first-time parent, that’s awful.”