Annotation #1-The effect of the COVOD-19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health the first 2 years. Investigations how exogenous variation in exposure to the Covid 19 on first year of life caused perceived stress. The pandemic has wreaked devastation on a global scale. In addition to causing millions of deaths. While the pandemic substantially impacted all New Yorkers lives mothers and infants may have been particularly affected. Masking requirements may have interfered with infants abilities to learn and communicate, correlational work has suggested that mothers reported decline in mental health during teb pandemic during both perinatal and postpartum periods. The long-term effects has impacted children as well as future generations, the brain damage inflicted by Covid in infants is a matter for concern it affected development in the most crucial stages and it also caused anxiety and stress on the motherf and the baby the long term effect would be mental illness for future generations.

Annotation #2 According the National Library of Medicine-Pandemic-related disruptions may have led to changes in parent-child interactions in way that could plausibly support or hinder language and socioemotional skill development. Furthermore, accumulating evidence has indicated declines in maternal mental health due to pandemic related stressors. The effect of the pandemic on maternal mental health is an important public health concern in its own right and also has potential implications for infant development. We hypothesized that greater duration of pandemic exposure over the first year of life would be associated with lower infant language skills, more infant socioemotional problems, and greater maternal anxiety, depressive, and perceived stress symptoms when infants were 12-24 months.