The pandemic is delaying baby plans for some women in Australia who say it has left them financially and emotionally unprepared for the challenge, particularly without their families being able to come over and support them.
‘No one was going to stop me’: Quarantined parents finally meet newborn
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By the time the clock in their Brisbane hospital isolation room hit 5.39pm on Wednesday, Moe and Sarah Haidar had endured eight days, 13 hours and 45 minutes without so much as setting eyes on their newborn son.
The first-time parents had been watching the clock for the timed-to-the-minute end to their 14-day quarantine period and the beginning of their lives as a family of three.
Mum Sarah Haidar and meets baby Ilyas for the first time.
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