Sarah Buck Davis and her husband, Brock Davis, had planned to add to their family last year.
The Northwest Side couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Sutton, and figured it was a good time to give her a sibling.
But the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March, “threw a wrench into that,” Sarah Davis said.
She had just graduated with her master’s degree, and with the economy tanking in the spring, it took longer than expected to find a job as a nurse practitioner. On top of that were the medical concerns of being pregnant during a pandemic.
“Having a second kid is not cheap, and I also had a lot of anxiety about not knowing if (pregnancy) was safe,” she said. “It just freaked me out. We decided `not now.’”
For pregnant and nursing women, risks of COVID-19 probably outweigh risk of vaccine, experts say
According to a November study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnant women are significantly more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, to end up on a ventilator, and to die from COVID-19 than women of the same age and health status who aren t pregnant.
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