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At just 28 years old, he has lived through a traumatic experience that, fortunately, has had a happy ending. Begoña Garcia, from La Conception Line (Cádiz), has been about to die due to Covid-19 and has not met her baby up to a month after birth because she has been admitted to the ICU for Covid-19.
Begoña was not vaccinated. According to account to ABC, did to protect your baby: “The midwife told me that there weren’t enough studies yet and I wanted to protect my son. If I hadn’t been pregnant I would have been vaccinated without a doubt, but I did it for him.”
He started feeling bad in November. had symptoms but All the tests they did were negative..
It was like that for two weeks. «In the last test they told me that it was positive and I went home to confine myself. She was already in the seventh month and three weeks pregnant. I hadn’t bothered to read the ER report but I did it the next day and what was my surprise when I saw that it said it was negative. I was still wrong and decided to go private. The test they gave me was positive and with a viral load of 500 points. They told me it was outrageous. I was confined for two more days but I could no longer breathe and they admitted me to the hospital’s Covid floor at dawn from December 6 to 7, ”he tells us with a persistent cough that the coronavirus has left him.
Two days later, as his condition worsened, he was given the cesarean birth. Everything was good. The baby, a boy, weighed 2,458 kilos and measured 55 centimeters. It was Covid negative, He was healthy and only spent a few hours in the incubator.
“They told my family that I didn’t go out”
However, Begoña could not see it. He worsened hours later and was admitted to the ICU, where he has been for several weeks. sedated and intubated. “They told my family not to count on me, to come and collect my things because I didn’t go out. My lungs and kidneys stopped.
But he resisted. The December 31 tested negative and left the ICU Covid with the most serious patients to the conventional one. She was still sedated. From that difficult stay, she only remembers a few moments of lucidity in which she asked about her baby.
Fortunately, Begoña got ahead and was able to meet her son, whom she has named José Manuel. It was January 7. The video of the first meeting, which has gone viral, is tremendously emotional. Subject to a tracheostomy, she could not speak and her arms were shaking. “I was afraid to pick it up because I thought I was going to drop it. My whole body was shaking.”
Although she had improved, she caught a bacteria and had to stay hospitalized for another week. This new mother was discharged on January 16, curiously the date on which he met and in which he was reunited with his baby. Begoña and her son are already at home. Both are fine although she has not yet recovered from the aftermath.
sevilla.abc.es
George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism