Why some women are hiding their pregnancies

For some women, the pandemic has been an opportunity to keep their private lives very private.

Alyson Krueger

Jan 28, 2022 – 7.49am

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On November 25, 2021, Genesis Paras announced to her family and friends over Instagram that she had a new baby girl. “Everyone meet our little bat Harlow Phoenix Paras,” she wrote.

All baby announcements are somewhat of a surprise; no one can ever be sure when a baby will be born. But this one was especially startling because Paras, 31, a stay-at-home mother in Anaheim, California, hadn’t told anyone outside of her parents and her husband’s parents that she was pregnant.