Doctors Deliver Premature Baby of Mother in Induced Coma Fighting COVID-19. Both Survive.

Angela Primachenko
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27-year-old Angela Primachenko was 33 weeks pregnant when she tested positive for COVID-19 and was put in a medically-induced coma. Doctors at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Washington, rather than performing an abortion on the premature child, induced labor while Primachecko was still in a coma to give both of them the best chance at survival.

“After all the medication and everything I just woke up and all of a sudden, I didn’t have my belly anymore. It was just extremely mind-blowing,” Primachenko said.

Her daughter, whom she named Ava, tested negative for COVID-19 after her premature birth. Ava has been staying in neo-natal intensive care, while her mother was released from the hospital on Saturday.

“Everyone did a standing ovation and just clapped me out of the ICU, which is so amazing and such a huge thing to be able to leave the ICU and go to the floor — it’s just the grace of God,” she said.

Primachenko hopes to be able to hold her daughter soon but has had to keep her distance from Ava to prevent her exposure to COVID-19.

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