she gives birth while in a coma, on a ventilator

Three weeks after giving birth, this mother has just met her baby. A miracle birth for this 30-year-old woman, who gave birth in a coma and connected to a ventilator.

This is the beautiful story of the day! Emily Brown, a 30-year-old mother, has just met her son Tucker. Plunged into an artificial coma and on a ventilator, following complications related to Covid-19, she gave birth to her son without knowing it.

It all started on September 18, the young woman from Tennessee, United States, was rushed to Erlanger Hospital in McMinn County. She was 31 weeks pregnant and complained that she was having trouble breathing. Two days later, she was put into a induced coma and was breathing through a ventilator. As she fought to stay alive, she gave birth to her son Tucker on September 24 without knowing she had given birth.

“It changed my outlook on life, it teaches you to live fully”

Twenty days later, Emily officially came out of a coma and was able to meet her miracle baby. "I thought I had only been in the hospital for two days so it had been 32 days", she confides.

The young mother had contracted a severe form of covid-19, which resulted in a tracheostomy, a surgical opening of the trachea. As her condition deteriorated, doctors told the family that she might never wake up. "We've heard that once you're on a ventilator you can't live without it, of course that was a fear", her husband Josh Brown tells News Channel 9. The premature baby was placed in intensive care for six weeks. "It changed my outlook on life, it teaches you to live fully", confides the young woman.

After eight weeks in intensive care, Tucker was finally able to go home, for the first time. The family hope the pandemic will no longer be taken lightly. “Wear a mask. I don't like it either. It's not nice to have this thing on your face – but I'd rather be in the hospital on a ventilator wondering if you're going to make it or not. ", concludes Emily.

A story that ends well!

Suruthi is a writer specializing in parenting for the Aufeminin, Parole de Mamans and Avis de Mamans websites.
She is also Community Manager for the social networks Facebook and Instagram of Aufeminin …