Lydia Bright reveals fears about raising baby Loretta amid the COVID-19 pandemic

She gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Loretta, just weeks before the coronavirus lockdown was put in place in the UK.

And Lydia Bright has revealed her fears about raising a newborn child amid the pandemic, admitting that she’d been having nightmares about being locked in perspex box and not able to touch her daughter.

The former TOWIE  star, 29, told how she’s ‘even more on high alert’ than usual as a first time mum as she discussed feeling protective over her baby.

Lydia welcomed her little girl with boyfriend Lee Cronin on February 21st, with the first few weeks of motherhood feeling like bliss.

But just as she adjusted to her new life as a parent, things in the UK dramatically changed with the spread of the deadly COVID-19 and the subsequent nationwide lockdown imposed by the government.

Speaking to The Sun’s Fabulous magazine, the reality star opened up on her feelings about bringing up Loretta in the midst of the world-wide crises.

She explained: ‘Naturally, when you have a newborn, especially first-time mums, you are very protective. At night-time, if she doesn’t make a noise I’ll jump up because I’m scared she’s not breathing. I was so panicky those first days anyway, then with this I’m even more on high alert.’ 

She continued: ‘I take Loretta out in the fresh air because I do think it’s important for her immune system. I’m just making sure when I leave the house I’ve got disposable gloves, but it is worrying.’

Lydia went on to admit that she feels ‘a little bit sad’ that little Loretta’s short time in the world has been marred by the ‘absolute chaos’, but insisted that it ‘could be worse’. 

Things are so worrying for Lydia that she also revealed that she’d had a nightmare about being trapped in a perspex box while in quarantine and was not able to touch her daughter.

Describing her dream she said: ‘I was having to put my hand up to the Perspex to touch my baby’s hand, but I couldn’t touch her because I was in isolation. I was held in this box for weeks and I missed out on weeks of my baby’s childhood. I had gone to bed worrying about coronavirus.’