The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hits New York hard, and Australia, like the rest of the world, battens down. This is a conversation recorded Friday 27 March 2020 between Dr Pamela Douglas, an Australian GP-researcher, Emma McCabe, a breastfeeding counsellor in New York City, and Honorary Associate Professor Peter Hill, an Australian academic and public health physician. We discuss the shocking but anticipated arrival of Disease X, living in the epicentre of a pandemic when you are caring for a baby, and the added risks that new mothers face. We discuss how vital it is right now to offer families evidence-based, evolutionary approaches to infant-care.