BAY SHORE, NY — A woman who gave birth while on a ventilator because of the new coronavirus met her baby for the first time as she was released from the hospital.
Yanira Soriano was hospitalized at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore with pneumonia from COVID-19 while pregnant. She was placed on a ventilator and underwent an emergency caesarean section at 34 weeks of pregnancy.
On Wednesday, Soriano was finally able to meet her newborn son, Walter, for the first time as she left the hospital.
In this video, numerous health care workers at Southside accompany Soriano as she is wheeled out to meet her son, to cheers and well-wishes. She is then able to stand up and walk to a waiting car while holding her son.
According to Benjamin Schwartz, the chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Southside, Soriano is 36 years old and was “very sick and had to go on a ventilator right away.” She was put into a medically induced coma and couldn’t see her new son on the day he was born.
Soriano spent two weeks in the intensive care unit, and the baby was transferred to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens.
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