{"id":6504,"date":"2021-05-19T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/grandparent-reunions-with-family-covid\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:12:38","slug":"grandparent-reunions-with-family-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/grandparent-reunions-with-family-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos of grandparent reunions with family after COVID separations are giving us all the feels"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many families, the hardest part of the COVID-19 pandemic is being separated from their loved ones. All over the country, there are grandparents who’ve yet to meet grandbabies, parents who haven’t seen their kids in over a year and grandkids who’ve been unable to visit grandma and grandpa. Recent changes to CDC guidelines<\/a> allow for visits with vaccinated loved ones, and now those long separations are finally ending for some. All over social media, people are sharing heartwarming videos of their emotional reunions with loved ones they haven’t seen since the pandemic began.<\/p>

1. Ask your doctor if hugs are right for you<\/strong><\/h2>

Jessica Shaw, the host of a Sirius XM radio show, says her mom’s doctor actually wrote a prescription to “hug her granddaughter.” She follows the photo of the prescription with a video of her mom receiving her first hug in over a year during a tearful family reunion.<\/p>

First hug she’s had in a year. Thank you to all the scientists and doctors who made this happen! pic.twitter.com\/puvJlJpDoy<\/a><\/p>

— Jessica Shaw (@JessicaShaw) March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>