-I'm Layla, and I am 38 weeks pregnant.
Family selfie.
I'm pregnant at a time where there is a global pandemic.
This is probably one of the busiest places in Hollywood --
super empty.
It's crazy.
I think it's important to catalog my journey
and share it with other women.
I'm looking up how to measure my own fundal height.
As the nation figures out how this pandemic will change
so many different elements of our life.
Feels a little impersonal to get to know somebody
whose face you can't see,
but Hadi and I have been married for I think like four years.
Is that right? -Yes.
-We've been married for four years now.
We're expecting our second child to expand our little family
of three to a little family of four.
So, I'm currently 10 days out from my due date,
and it's a Friday afternoon.
So, I would say the hardest part of having --
-Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.
-Hi, Baba. Baba.
I'd say the hardest part of navigating this pandemic
has been keeping a toddler indoors.
So we've been thinking a lot about our daughter, in specific,
and how we can get somebody to come watch her
while I'm in labor.
-Come on.
-But also how my husband can leave the hospital
and come back home while maintaining social distance
with whoever it is who ends up watching our daughter.
My daughter is clearly thrilled
to be somewhere that she can run around,
which she has not been able to do.
I am nine days out. Eight days out.
Officially six days out.
I'm five days out from my due date.
So I am now three days out from my due date.
-Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. -Hi, Mama.
Tomorrow's my due date.
We're officially on baby watch.
I have a baby due tomorrow.
-Alright, so here's your due date.
-Yeah. -How's baby doing?
-The baby's good. He's kicking.
My weight is up by two pounds.
I think I'm like 172. Who knows if it's water.
I'm not too concerned.
Okay, how many cases does the Santa Moni--
Westwood facility have now, by the way?
-The Santa Monica hospital actually has not yet
had a positive patient. -Oh, awesome.
And then how about, like, general patients?
-Oh, I checked it this morning, and now I can't remember.
I want to say it was like 13. -Okay, that's not bad,
'cause last week it was nine or eight.
-Yeah, yeah.
-I am big, really big, but here we are, two days past due.
The last time I was kind of this pregnant, we were walking a ton,
just, like, as much as we could after work,
but this time it's more risky, so we're avoiding that,
though I do want to start walking pretty soon
'cause it felt really helpful, and also I just feel like
I need to stretch my body a little bit.
It is 6:30 in the morning, and something feels off.
Like, I feel like the baby isn't kicking as much,
which I'm pretty paranoid about, obviously.
I don't want him to be in distress or anything.
So I called my midwives.
I'm waiting for them to call me back,
and I'm gonna go to the hospital to get checked.
I got nervous and went in, and that's when they told me
I was three centimeters.
At 11:17 AM, my water broke.
We are on our way to the hospital.
It's my daughter's nap time,
so she kind of had a little meltdown in the car.
I'm definitely feeling contractions,
and she requested "Baby Shark,"
and at this point, we're just trying to get to the hospital
as safely without me delivering this child on the way.
So. Hi.
Got checked into my room that I'll be laboring in,
and changed into a gown.
There is 20 COVID-positive patients up above.
I think I heard 16 of them were on ventilators,
and they did a test for me.
Starting today, they're testing
everybody who's getting a procedure.
I was negative, which is good, but, yes, pretty wild.
-And one, two, three, four, five.
You're done.
-That's deep. -Yeah.
-We are not -- our contractions are three to four minutes apart.
We've been in the hospital for a few hours now.
Progressing nicely.
Going to my recovery room now with my baby.
I delivered at 8:13 PM, and Hadi left around midnight or so.
-I can't kiss him, right? -No.
-No, don't.
-Just say, "Bye." -Bye.
-See you soon, Baba. -Bye.
-Okay, that's good.
-Okay. -Alright.
-Thank you so much for your help.
-See ya. -Bye.
-It was pretty bad to say goodbye, but I totally get it,
and so they shipped me off to another part of the hospital.
I never really saw anybody who delivered me's face
or took care of me.
My face and my husband's face are the only faces
that my son really ever saw.
So this is the first day of his life.
We're in this hospital.
It's just me and him.
Gonna Zoom his dad pretty soon
and see how things are going at home.
-How are you? -I'm good.
-Hi, baby.
Hi, baby. -Hi.
-Hi, baby. -Hi, big sister.
Hi. -Hi, baby.
Good baby.
-I'm glad that Hadi was there during labor.
Recovery was much more serene
than I would have expected it to be,
though it was physically taxing and gruelling.
It was just very slow, and I don't think,
between my job and toddler, who also keeps my very busy,
I haven't had a slow day, I don't know, in forever.
We are now leaving. We're getting discharged,
so we're gonna go meet my husband outside.
So as soon as they told me that he was okay, the next morning,
Hadi and Camila came to pick me up.
You guys saw me when I think my water broke.
-That's right. -We came full-circle.
As soon as we got home, my husband just wanted to spend
as much time with his son as possible,
and they didn't really know each other.
I mean, he was there for the first few hours,
so he was just in awe in discovering all these things
about him and looking at his face.
And it's been really quiet and very slow.
I come from a very communal family
where people are always around,
so that's been a little different.
We don't really do things quietly.
But it has been a nice time to bond with the baby
and have him get to know his sister a little better.
He's yawning.
So cute.