Nurse with coronavirus gives birth to baby while in medically induced coma – and still doesn’t know she has a son
AN OHIO nurse gave birth to her son while in a medically induced coma last week as she battles coronavirus - and still doesn't know she's a mom.
Megan Sites, 27, had an emergency c-section performed on her on April 9 "in order to save her and her baby".
The new mom was seven months pregnant when she was diagnosed with , after she slowly started to .
However, in just 24 hours her condition worsened and became "mean", according to her brother, Shaun Jeffries.
He told : "She was crying to my mom, saying she doesn’t want to die. That right there tells you she knew enough and what she was going through."
Due to her worsening condition, doctors had to perform a C-section in order to save the mom and son.
Her sister-in-law, Kacie Jeffries, said: "Her lungs were just failing. In order to save her and her baby, they had to do an emergency C-section.
"She doesn’t know that she had her baby, and her baby was delivered at 29 weeks."
Megan was sedated and put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, which oxygenates the blood by pumping it out of the body, through an artificial lung and back in.
She is now on a ventilator and is starting to show signs of improvement.
Her premature son has been tested for coronavirus twice, but both tests have come back negative.
The little boy is currently in intensive care and has not yet been given a name.
Megan's husband, Donny, was finally able to hold his baby three days after he was born and is currently looking after their daughter at home.
Kacie added: "Never in a million years would we have thought our 27-year-old sister would be infected with this virus and almost lose her life. People have got to take this seriously.”
Just three days ago, , a 27-year-old from , , woke up to find out she had given birth.
Angela was medically induced into a coma while she was 33 weeks pregnant, after she tested positive for the coronavirus.
"Obviously nobody expected that I was going to get that sick, so no, absolutely not, I did not expect to deliver my child,'' she told the program.
Although Primachenko was discharged from hospital on Saturday, she has not been able to hold her newborn Ava, who is still in an intensive care unit.
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