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, 30, 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 crisis.

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.’

She went on to say that though she’s aware young children and babies are ‘not normally infected’ by the virus, she still feels we are ‘human guinea pigs’ as this is such a ‘new virus’. 

However, Lydia is looking on the bright side and revealed the one good thing about the coronavirus pandemic is that she gets to have one-on-one quality time with her daughter.

She explained that when Loretta first arrived, she was ‘overwhelmed’ by visitors, which left her fearing that she hadn’t ‘looked’ at her baby enough.

But now with social distancing restrictions in place, Lydia has now focused on essential bonding time with her little girl.  

Meanwhile, Lydia recently told fans her seven-week-old daughter had been unsettled throughout the night after getting conjunctivitis.

Lydia admitted she sobbed to her sister Georgia on Sunday night after a week of interrupted sleep.

Lydia shared a sweet clip of her daughter and wrote: ‘My little Loretta has conjunctivitis. Today I got her eye drops and now she is so much happier. 

Nothing beats this smile’.

She continued: ‘Last week Loretta was such a challenge. On Sunday I was sobbing to my sister, this was what she messaged me when I was in bed on Sunday night.’

Lydia went on to share an encouraging message from her sister Georgia, who told her she was a ‘fantastic mum’ and told her she should go to their mum Debbie for some much needed advice.

After switching up Loretta’s bedtime routine, it appears the former TOWIE star has been able to sleep uninterrupted.

Lydia posted a make-up free selfie of herself pouting as she sat in her car and captioned the snap: ‘The face of a mumma who got eight hours sleep’ (sic).