3346 Stress-sensitive moms had increased risk of delivering under-weight babies. Post-partum anxiety rose among new moms as antenatal checkups were either delayed or missed, according to a Chandigarh-based gynaecologist.
Renu Sud Sinha
Lockdown froze life, but not its creation. Not the best of times to bring a new life to a pandemic-stricken world, doomsayers would have surely advised. But for many busy couples from the frenetic era of pre-Covid times, it was an unexpected “ek-kamre-mein-band-ho” kind of stress-free freebie and they made the most of it.
In the absence of domestic help, an unborn child wasn’t the only load.
Fears Doctors faced