ABSTRACT
In this chapter, via engagement with existential-phenomenological ideas and concepts, Dr Cleo Hanaway-Oakley reflects upon being pregnant, and giving birth, during the Covid-19 pandemic. She looks to Merleau-Ponty’s ideas on intersubjectivity, and de Beauvoir’s thoughts on uncertainty and ambiguity, to describe her lived experience. This chapter presents a first-person viewpoint but is interwoven with allusions to several of the literary texts that Hanaway-Oakley engages with in her job as an English lecturer: works by Beckett, Woolf and Plath.
