DEAR MAMA TO BE // I gave birth during Covid 19

​​DEAR MAMA TO BE //
I feel your heart from where i am. I know you're being strong.
You're trying to hide your scared eyes and yearning for the media to be wrong. 

You find yourself hiding away in your home. You long for a world that is safe. 
To bring your baby into this world, but right now feels its just not the case. 
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Your shower is cancelled or maybe your plans to catch up with family and friends. 
To love & to laugh, have them fawn over you and feel babies kicks with their hands.
 
Your baby moon is off & your birth plan amended to account for the new rules laid down.
You know its for your safety & your babies sweet life but you cant help but feel so let down. 

Your body is growing this little human, so long awaited & there’s no possible chance you can pause. 
The world is still turning & days are all passing with fear and unknown behind every door. 
This moment was yours, this time in your life to enjoy all the good times to come. 
The weeks before you become a mama where all of your heart & attention is diverted from your lives to their one. 

But that is all dimmed & now locked away in your house where you distance yourself from the world. 
Attending appointments alone or worse on the phone, what used to be joyful, all now feels so cold. 
But you will get through this, this time in your journey, finding an unknown strength you have got.
Your baby will come right into this world & this world as you know it will stop.

The moments you spend gazing at them, hearing giggles and counting their little toes. 
You wont even notice the world will melt away with all of its worries & all of its woes. 
Take a deep breath in & remember you have more gumption and grace than any of this overwhelming fear. 
No matter the state of the world & its grieving. You need not let that grief in here. 
Don’t fret or be scared in this moment sweet mama. We're all in this together you know. 
That through thick & thin we will do this together and through all of these hard times we will grow. 
When all this is over & the sun comes in shining, we'll know in our hearts how far we've come.
I hear you, i see you, i am you beautiful mama we can get through this together as one.