A 27-year-old woman contracted coronavirus when she was 33 weeks pregnant and then gave birth when she was in an induced coma.
Angela Primachenko, from Vancouver, Washington, tested positive for coronavirus when she was 33 weeks pregnant on March 24.
Her health deteriorated and she was put into an induced coma at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center.
When Angela woke up from the coma, she found out she has given birth to a girl while on a ventilator.
The newborn tested negative for coronavirus after she was born.
Angela told the Today show: “Obviously nobody expected that I was going to get that sick, so no, absolutely not, I did not expect to deliver my child.”
“After all the medication and everything I just woke up and all of a sudden, I didn’t have my belly anymore. It was just extremely mind-blowing.”
The medical staff at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center gave Angela a standing ovation when she left the ICU.
When she was asked about giving birth while in a coma, Angela said: “I feel like I’m a miracle walking.”
However, Angela couldn’t hold her newborn daughter, Ava, as she was in the ICU and Angela, had coronavirus.
Angela has been discharged from the hospital after she tested negative for coronavirus.
Angela, who also has an 11-months-old daughter Emily, has still not met her newborn daughter Ava.
However, the nurses at the hospital are sending her updates and Angela thanked them on Instagram for sending her newborn’s picture to her.
She wrote on Instagram: ‘Baby Ava is still in the NICU and i still haven’t been able to see her in person but so thankful for amazing nurses who send me to update photos!!! CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU my little fighter!!’
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