CONCERNS OF RISK OF EXPOSURE IN HOSPITAL DURING DELIVERY Hospital staff and your obstetrician and pediatrician are trying to minimize the number of people who come to the hospital. There are rules to make sure that anyone who needs to evaluated for COVID-19 will be isolated from other patients. All medical staff are working hard to ensure that your risk of being exposed to COVID-19 is low. In the hospital, many precautions are being taken to minimize exposure risks. If you choose to do so, it may be possible to go home sooner than you normally would after birth, as long as you feel well and your birth was uncomplicated. Talk to your obstetric about this. CAN A COVID POSITIVE MOTHER BREASTFEED HER BABY Although small studies have not identified any evidence of COVID-19 in breast milk, it's still not entirely clear whether breastfeeding mothers can transmit the virus to their babies through nursing. Some hospital policies may recommend to temporarily seperate your baby from you to prevent the baby from getting infected.   Breast milk can help protect babies against many illnesses. If you have COVID-19 and are nursing, take proper precautions like washing your hands before touching your baby and wearing a face mask, while nursing your baby. Or, if you can, express milk and have someone else feed it to your baby. If expressing breast milk, mothers should make sure to clean their breast pump properly each time and consider letting another caregiver bottle-feed the expressed milk to the baby. FINAL ADVICE...... There’s no evidence that pregnancy makes you any more likely to get coronavirus. Still, it’s a serious threat to everyone. You should take all the recommended steps to avoiding getting sick. Those include washing your hands often, not touching your face, staying at least 6 feet away from other people, and AVOIDING GROUPS. Wear a cloth face mask when you’re in public places like stores and doctor’s clinic.