Covid: a woman in a coma gives birth to twins

Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham has been the scene of a true miracle as the country is hit hard by the second wave of Covid-19. A woman, infected with the new coronavirus in April 2020 and placed in a coma, has given birth to twins. Doctors had decided to deliver the babies as young as 26 weeks by Caesarean section in case their mother did not recover. Second good news: the mother has finally overcome the disease. But, when she woke up, Perpetual Uke was seized with a panic fear: “I no longer saw my round belly and I thought that my babies were gone”, she indeed explained to the British newspaper. Metronews.

The mother, who today confides in feeling “very good”, has only vague memories of her hospitalization. She barely remembers being taken care of by an ambulance before being “plunged into a coma”. “Coming out of the coma was the most painful time. I had nightmares and had delusions. No longer seeing my round belly, I immediately believed that my babies were gone and that all my family was dead, ”she told the British press. And the young woman continued: “It was a very, very worrying time for my husband and my children and, even after I woke up, I could not see my babies for more than two weeks. ”

We are all very, very happy.

The newborns, a girl named Sochika Palmer and a boy named Osinachi Pascal, weighed only 765g and 850g respectively at birth. They were both admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit at Birmingham Women’s Hospital while their mother recovered. The latter came out of the coma 16 days after giving birth, beginning her road to recovery. Perpetual Uke has since returned home and is just starting to savor this new chapter: “The family is now reunited and we are all very, very happy. ”