Do you have any friends who started parenthood during the pandemic this year? How does it sound to raise a newborn in a multicultural family in which parents are having totally different concepts on raising their child? How does parenthood reshape the couple’s relationship when so much love and care go to the newborn and deeper anxieties as well as heavier burden fall over their shoulders from the inside and the outside?

In this episode, Lyla is talking with Crystal, a dear friend who is currently living in San Francisco with her husband Bo and their newborn baby girl Olivia. Suffering an unexpected and dangerous high blood pressure in the following weeks after a rather easier normal delivery, Crystal found out her new adventure of being a mom was far more thrilling than she expected especially in the context of the pandemic. Let us go with her on this new journey to share her strength, resilience, and optimism.

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