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Pandemic Mama with Jesus Trivino

3. How the Pandemic Changed this Adoption Story with Jesus Triviño

Posted on September 30, 2020February 2, 2021 by Irina Gonzalez

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Irina talks with Latinx pop culture expert and dad Jesus Triviño about what it was like to adopt his daughter just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss his and his wife’s 9-year struggle to have a baby and how it all finally came together in just 9 weeks. They also get into his “dad self-care” and what it was like to be quarantined with a newborn inn New York City.

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Irina Gonzalez is a journalist, editor, and sober bisexual Latina mom with ADHD. She is the author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter—for those of us who are raising social justice-minded families and getting real about mental health for parents navigating life on the difficult setting. She is also working on an upcoming book on impactful Latinx Americans with The Quarto Publishing Group.

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