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A 36-year-old woman with New York coronavirus has been able to see for the first time the baby she had given birth 11 days earlier by emergency caesarean section while in an induced coma.
Yanira Soriano has spent 11 days intubated. She "miraculously" came out of the coma so she could meet her fourth child, says the chief of gynecology and obstetrics at Southside Hospital on the Bay Shore . "We did not know if he would survive. Most patients who have required artificial respiration do not survive," says Dr. Benjamin Schwartz .
Her condition improved in a few days, and when she came out of the coma she was applauded by dozens of caregivers who, tearfully, fired her on Wednesday when she was discharged. Her husband, wearing a mask like her, gave her baby, Walter .
Yanira was eight months pregnant when she became infected along with her husband. They hospitalized her, put her on oxygen, but she was getting worse very quickly. The doctors barely had time to announce that they were going to do an emergency C-section for fear that the lack of oxygen would put the baby in danger.
"Everything got worse just before the cesarean section and had to be intubated. She was unconscious when her baby was born," adds Dr. Schwartz.
Little Walter, a little premature, is fine. Transferred to a children's hospital in New York while his mother recovered, he was finally able to reunite with his entire family on Wednesday night.
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