Introduction to the Lockdown Mums

It’s said, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But families with babies born during COVID have been left asking, “Where’s the village?”

In a series of intimate conversations we hear the experiences of new mothers navigating birth, relationships and the ups and downs of learning how to parent in a pandemic.

As the world shut down, routine check-ups were cancelled; baby groups called off and proud grandparents were kept away from cuddles.

New parents literally had their ‘village’ disappear overnight. And now, as many families begin to re-unite and return to a more normal life after months of isolation, these post-pandemic mums face a daunting question: How do you navigate re-entry when your own world and the world outside are so fundamentally changed?

In a set of eleven conversations, each new mum discusses how COVID’s transformed them from the mum they thought they’d be, to the one their family needed to be to survive.