Pandemic Raises Fears For Pregnant Mainers As More Explore Home Births

Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can support this mission by purchasing a digital subscription. Anna Howard had hoped to have her mother and fiance in the delivery room when she gives birth to her first baby, due in less than a week. That may no longer be possible, as hospitals have tightened restrictions on visitors in the delivery room as one of many responses to stop the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. [Our COVID-19 tracker contains the most recent information on Maine cases by county] “We don’t know, day to day, if it’s gonna change,” said Howard, who lives in Gray.