# @xpressmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CHeLi_NrGmr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9076893-xpressmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-11-12T01:03:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Xpress Magazine (@XpressMagazine) — https://gondola.cc/XpressMagazine

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A family walked into Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to care for their one-month-old newborn, who had recently tested positive for COVID-19. As Joanna Stephenson, a nurse of only six months, cared for the baby she noticed the mother was quite distressed as she was sobbing. After Stephenson asked what was wrong, the mother explained that she felt like she had done everything correctly to keep her child from contracting the virus. The mother had brought her baby home immediately after giving birth, allowed no visitors in their home and didn’t leave the house unless absolutely necessary. She took her baby out for a quick trip to the grocery store one time, which was when the baby was exposed to coronavirus. Stephenspon recalls how the mother cried about her worries, and how she tried her very best to keep her baby healthy.
“It made me feel kind of surprised and helpless,” Stephenson said. “This really stuck out to me because she did everything she was supposed to do, but the baby still caught it.” 
Stephenson had recently graduated from SF State’s nursing program and did not imagine entering the workforce amid a global pandemic. Fellow nursing graduates, such as Stephenson, envisioned transitioning from student to a professional under different circumstances. 
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