ST. LOUIS — It was late April, about a month into the COVID-19 pandemic, when Christina Lee Sterling was laid off from her job as a corporate lawyer.
"We were pretty panicked generally, and then we found out we were pregnant," she said. "It was a mix of complete elation and total stress and anxiety."
Lee Sterling, 34, had been furloughed near the beginning of the pandemic, like so many millions of Americans. Even in those early days, when uncertainty about the danger of the virus and its impact to the economy was so high, she and her husband, James, still wanted a child.
