The young mother woke up only on the fifth day after the birth of her daughter.
Angela Primachenko, a 27-year-old pediatric neonatologist from Vancouver, was 33 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with ᴄᴏʀᴏɴᴀᴠɪʀᴜs. The woman’s ᴄᴏɴᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴ worsened, and after a week of ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ, she was put into a medically ɪɴᴅᴜᴄᴇᴅ ᴄᴏᴍᴀ.
For 10 days, doctors fought for the lives of Angela and her child. For 10 days, the woman was ᴜɴᴄᴏɴsᴄɪᴏᴜs and breathing with the help of a ᴠᴇɴᴛɪʟᴀᴛᴏʀ. And when she woke up on April 6, she found out that she had given birth to a daughter.
Baby Ava was born five days earlier by ᴄᴀᴇsᴀʀᴇᴀɴ sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ. At some point, Angela’s ᴄᴏɴᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴ became so sᴇᴠᴇʀᴇ that the doctors decided to perform the ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ a few weeks ahead of schedule. So they saved both mother and baby.
“When I woke up from the ᴄᴏᴍᴀ, I immediately saw that my stomach had disappeared. It was just a ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴇxᴘʟᴏsɪᴏɴ – I was so scared,” Angela recalls her first impressions.
Little Ava was born with a weight of 2 kg. The girl’s life was not ɪɴ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ, but the mother was able to hug her newborn daughter only a week later, when Angela’s test for ᴄᴏʀᴏɴᴀᴠɪʀᴜs showed a ɴᴇɢᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ʀᴇsᴜʟᴛ.
“I’m crying! I came out of a ᴄᴏᴍᴀ and I am holding my daughter,” she signed her first photo with her daughter on social networks.
The premature baby was kept under observation in the ɪɴᴛᴇɴsɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ᴜɴɪᴛ for another week, and then she was finally discharged home.
“Ava, my little champion, is doing great and gaining weight every day,” Angela reported.
The happy mother couldn’t wait for her eldest daughter, Emily, who is only 11 months old, to see her little sister. How the girl’s face shone when she saw the bundle with the baby. Emily’s touching reaction was caught on video, which Angela shared on social networks.
“My girls met,” the happy mother signed the post.
Angela confesses that she does not know how she contracted the virus. She assures that she followed all the ᴘʀᴇᴄᴀᴜᴛɪᴏɴs and even stopped working to protect herself during pregnancy. When Angela found out about her ᴅɪᴀɢɴᴏsɪs, she, as a doctor, immediately realized that in her case everything would end up with a ᴠᴇɴᴛɪʟᴀᴛᴏʀ.
“At some point, I just couldn’t breathe,” she recalls.
“We already thought we were losing her. We could only pray,” say Angela’s relatives.
But mom-fighter got out. Now Angela is eternally grateful to the doctors who saved her and her daughter’s lives.
“Thank you to these wonderful people who made our meeting with my daughter possible!” says the happy mother.
