North Texas Mom Hospitalized 93 Days With COVID-19 Delivers Healthy Baby Girl

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A new mother had an emotional reunion with the doctor that saved not only her life, but the life of her unborn child.

Two survivors, looking into each other’s eyes despite the odds against either of them making it to this heartwarming moment.

“I had to make the decision to put her on a ventilator to give her a fighting chance,” said Dr. Dara Otu, MD, pulmonologist and ICU doctor.Her husband, Joseph Romero, was told to prepare to lose both.Ariel emerged from her coma but had to rebuild her body, motivated she says, by the new feeling of a baby kicking inside her.

“You know there were times when the baby wasn’t growing as fast as she should, but you know we talked about it, we just always stayed hopeful,” said Dr. Otu.Joseph filled me in on a lot of what happened and the what ifs. We had a lot of scary talks,” said Ariel. Her mother’s doctor says this story should encourage expecting mothers to get vaccinated which Ariel wasn’t.

 

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