Created for Endy 
Parenting in COVID times is next-level business: Stuffy noses, diaper changes, homework duty and regularly scheduled snacks have all morphed into an unwieldy frenzy of kid-friendly PPE, ?e-learning,? stir-craziness and, somehow, even more snacks. 
And the parents who are actually allowed to leave the house are often frontline medical workers, facing the true ills of the pandemic head-on, all while balancing mom-and-dad duty in their off-hours. Endy?s new Healthcare Heroes initiative aims to provide some relief by donating mattresses to Canadian hospitals and frontline medical professionals, so they can get some much-needed rest. Here, two doctors share what it?s like to manage child-rearing alongside our current health crisis ? and how a good night?s sleep goes a long way in keeping them sane.
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Dr. Andrea Mosher, Fifth-Year Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster Hospital 
I have two sons who are three-and-a-half and one-and-a-half. When the pandemic started, 
in-person gynecology got put on hold almost completely, while labor and delivery went on as it did. There’s been a huge shift towards telemedicine, and in some ways, there’s an efficiency to that. 
It’s always hard to be away from my kids, but there is a particular kind of uncertainty now. When the pandemic really started, I was still on mat leave for the first month. I went back to work in April, when my youngest was seven months old. Until I had my vaccine, whe...