Jeanne Zamith was a new mom, working in nursing during one of the most chaotic periods in medical history and trying to keep herself afloat. As she struggled with her work-life balance, she got an opportunity that would change everything.
“I graduated nursing school in 2019. I had my son in late 2019 and when I went back to work, it was in a pandemic as an ICU nurse,” Zamith tells PEOPLE.
“It was almost like being in survival mode. I was away from my family. I was away from everything I knew. Thank God I had my husband, but there was a lot of fear. I think that contributed to the postpartum depression. Not only was I seeing horrifying things at work, but there was the political landscape at the time, plus the fear of bringing COVID home to a newborn or a young child. There was so much we didn’t …