![]() Months before we'd ever heard of COVID, Charlie's breathing became shallow, his ribs retracting with quickened respiration. ![]() Working from home with my toddler was challenging, but it was easier than being at the hospital, which was where my husband, James, was that day - and where Charlie had spent most of the preceding winter. I spent the afternoon grading papers while my son Charlie crawled beside my desk. The pandemic taught me to let go of trying to be a perfect mother. Our son Charlie spent the months prior to March 2020 in the hospital with shallow breathing. My husband is a doctor who was taking care of COVID patients when the pandemic started. I'm a perfectionist and the pandemic forced me to become a different mother.
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