Pregnant patients are now facing the possibility of delivering babies in hospitals filled with COVID-19 patients. And plans they made are now in question — from where they'll give birth, to who can be there with them.
The prospect of going through childbirth without her husband by her side has Herriges considering an option her doctor recommends against: being induced early. That's left Herriges with a dilemma: Should she go to a different hospital with an unfamiliar doctor?
Because COVID-19 is so new, definitive answers are hard to get. So far, there doesn't seem to be evidence that women are more likely to contract the virus when they're pregnant, and limited research suggests that the coronavirus cannot be transmitted during childbirth or breastfeeding, although the preliminary studies are sometimes conflicting.
The purpose of that, according to Dr. Laura France, an OB/GYN at Fairview, is"to try to have women come in and be delivered and go home again before we really start to see a surge of COVID-positive women in our maternity units." Some pregnant women are wondering if they should avoid hospitals entirely and instead opt to give birth at home or in a birthing center. But France, of Fairview, advised against that, noting that with nonhospital births,"we never know when something might go wrong" and require a hospital trip anyway. She considers hospitals a safer option, even if delivery room visitors will be limited.
Ecker noted that MGH has no plans to require women to give birth alone"because we recognize that, boy, it would just seem so different and in some ways unkind to not have one's partner or support person there during labor and delivery."
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