Working mothers share challenges from the past year
ERIKA RILEY, Frederick News-Post
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FREDERICK, Md. (AP) Komal Sampat did not expect to have her first-born child while wearing a mask. She also did not expect to be so isolated after the birth, with her family in India, stuck on the other side of the world due to unexpected travel restrictions.
But the coronavirus pandemic had other plans for her and thousands of other new mothers.
“We came home, and we were just a little bit confused and lost,” she said. “Because nobody could come and help us out.”
Working parents are already dealt a double-duty situation, but adding a pandemic where many had to start working from home, day cares were closed and schools were going online certainly did not help. The one word mothers repeatedly use to describe the past year: stressful.