Oh, By the Way: I Had a Baby

The pandemic has offered some women a choice they never had before: to keep their pregnancies secret til the very end.

On Nov. 25, Genesis Paras announced to her family and friends over Instagram that she had a new baby girl.

“Everyone meet our little bat Harlow Phoenix Paras,” she wrote.

All baby announcements are somewhat of a surprise; no one can ever be sure when a baby will be born. But this one was especially startling because Ms. Paras, 31, a stay-at-home mother in Anaheim, Calif., hadn’t told anyone outside of her parents and her husband’s parents that she was pregnant.