2 Nurses Celebrate Their First Mother's Day As They Worked On Pandemic Frontlines It's been a tough year for health care workers. Now, two nurses on the frontlines of the pandemic in California are celebrating new life and their first Mother's Day. Bea Joe and Racquelle Thieling enjoy snuggling with their new babies Sloane and Hudson after a year of highs and lows. “Now, I know when people say it's love at first sight, and you're just filled with all this love,” Thieling said. “It's very rewarding to be a parent, to be a mother, and to have done this through COVID,” Joe said.