Gemmarie Ho Pui-lum knew she would be alone when she gave birth. It was not by choice. Just a couple of weeks before her due date, Ho found out that public hospitals across the city had banned partners from labour wards, because of the coronavirus outbreak.“It was a mental challenge in the build-up to the birth. I felt like, I don’t know if I can do this alone,” says Ho, 35, a teacher at Little Gems Playgroup in Discovery Bay.“But you do just get on with it, because there isn’t really an option…
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