When Cinthia Shields first became a grandmother in 2020, she wasn’t able to join her newly extended family due to COVID restrictions. But the second time around, when her daughter gave birth to twins in 2021, she was right there to offer love and a helping hand.
“I have been a grandparent now for a little over two years, and the twins are the second round of babies,” Shields says. “With Cora, who was born in 2020, I missed everything: pregnancy, baby showers and birth, and that was so difficult. But then six months later, I got a phone call, and my daughter said, ‘Oh my god, I’m pregnant again.’”
