We had a lockdown baby! How it feels to bring a child into the world during a pandemic
What s it like to have a baby in the midst of a global crisis, and be denied the comfort of family and friends? Several new parents tell all
30 January 2021 • 6:00am
Seven-week-old Asta was born to Lucie and Alec Mills in the second lockdown
Credit: Clara Molden for The Telegraph
Edgar, my lockdown baby, turned five months old this week, and we celebrated with a telephone check-up with his doctor and a click-and-collect from the supermarket. If he didn’t have three older brothers, he wouldn’t know that other children existed – the first, and only, time he met another baby was back in October, and he was asleep. As a result, big tears roll down his podgy cheeks when he sees new (masked) faces, which makes me want to cry, too, because the world is beautiful and yet isolation is all he knows.