ILIGAN CITY—It was already five hours after midnight of December 25 when their baby was born but Aleja Abdul and her husband considered their first born a “Christmas baby.”
Abdul, 36, and her husband Rommel were both overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who went home in March, the start of the lockdown to stop the spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Both lost their jobs but Abdul said she considered it a blessing in disguise because for the first time in their 10 years of marriage, they suddenly found lots of time for each other.
“We lost our jobs but when we came home in the Philippines, I got pregnant,” she said. “I never expected to deliver my baby on D…
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