Due to coronavirus restrictions, Marty Gandelman was unable to be in the room when his child was born. (Credit: Stephanie Gandelman via Storyful) Due to coronavirus restrictions, Marty Gandelman was unable to be physically present in the room when his first child was born.
That didn’t stop him, though, from watching the birth from afar. The Jersey City man watched via Zoom as his wife Stephanie delivered their son at New York City’s Mount Sinai hospital on March 27, 2020.
Stephanie told Storyful that the experience was “surreal” while describing the couple’s previous difficulties getting pregnant, having experienced three miscarriages in the past. “I was terrified,” Stephanie said to Storyful when her fourth pregnancy test came back