Yanira Soriano held her son, Walter, for the first time this week 12 days after he was born.
It was a heartwarming scene at a New York hospital Wednesday as a mother who gave birth while in a medically induced coma after being diagnosed with COVID-19 met her son for the first time.
Soriano tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, after which doctors decided to put her in a medically induced coma and place her on a ventilator.Though Soriano was taken off of the ventilator on Monday, she had to wait until Wednesday to be discharged from the hospital, at which point she finally got to hold her baby.
“She was not awake when her baby was born and did not hear the baby cry or have any opportunity to meet him right after his birth,” he said.
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