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"You know what hurts me the most now? Not being able to hold my baby in my arms since birth. That tears me apart. The rest is over. I've been fine for a week. It was hard and I was scared. It was hard both for me and for my husband and my other one year old daughter. I thought they were positive and my baby too. And then I was terrified to leave them, to become one more number than what now seems like a war bulletin . I will never forget it " It is a beautiful, heartbreaking and at the same time survival story of Gloria, one of the pregnant women who tested positive for coronavirus and who on March 15, in the midst of a health emergency in Italy, gave birth to her baby.

A birth that for the small town of Cuneo Langhe, famous for wine and for the grave of Luigi Einaudi, was a "true ray of sunshine" . Gloria talks about her suffering while she is still admitted to the Cuneo hospital , hoping to fully recover from the Covid-19. "Physically I have been fine for almost seven days," he explains.

"But I still don't explain how it happened. When I was pregnant, I went to two hospitals for an ultrasound and a checkup on March 4 and 6. On March 9 I was already sick , my whole family had the first symptoms. Fortunately, my husband and My one-year-old daughter is asymptomatic, but positive, now negative. My grandmother and I, however, are still hospitalized. To give birth to the baby, they had to undergo a cesarean section, "she tells Corriere della Sera.

"I have lost very important moments forever"

Long and tiring weeks when Gloria was also treated with the HCPC, the breathing helmet defined as "a bag damn plastic in which the head kept for 6 days damn, 140 hours, 8,640 minutes". "I will never wear a motorcycle helmet again," she says, still excited.

"This disease deprived me of many moments and I did not deserve it . I missed the first part of my daughter's life, that part of motherhood, that of the smell of the baby, the first bath, that of the umbilical cord. I missed her first glances I did not see her while I was raising my head the first time. I will not be able to forget this hell. It will be my nightmare all my life, "says Gloria.

Gloria sends a direct message to all those parents who in recent days have claimed to be able to remove their children from their homes, even if only for a short time. "I want to tell those who want to go out that each walk can cost dozens of holes in their arteries and veins . Let them remember that they are parents and that their children are not immune. Save yourself, you have the weapons, you just have to stay home as much as when possible. When I can go home I won't move from there. "

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