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In the space of a few months last year, Margaret O’Shea went from being excited to scared to mentally exhausted.
O’Shea was the mother of a toddler and six months pregnant with her second child when COVID-19 shut the world down in March of 2020. She had no idea what the virus might do to her or her baby, or even whether her husband would be allowed in the delivery room. Once she gave birth – to a boy named Colin in June – every trip out of the house with him was fraught with apprehension.