Karabo Mokoena Although she was not completely there for her daughter s birth, she is grateful she gets to celebrate Mother s Day. Serena Torres gave birth while in a coma due to Covid-19 complications. Image: Facebook @serenatorres
Pregnancy and childbirth were not the happiest experiences for 29-year-old Serena Torres in New York.
When she was six months pregnant she discovered she had contracted Covid-19. Her health quickly deteriorated and with her organs shutting down she was admitted to intensive care.
Before things turned for the worse, Serena was put into an induced coma and gave birth to her daughter, Allesandra, through a C-section birth. Allesandra weighed 1.81kg and was born two months before her due date.
Anishca Morris died weeks after being admitted with Covid-19 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Image: Supplied
She will never share a mother and daughter bond. She will never get see her child smile, cry, or hear the words “mommy”. The closest Anishca Morris came to her newborn daughter Azariah was through pictures on her cellphone.
Before she closed her eyes forever, Anishca called her mother and said: “Mommy, if I don’t make it out of here, just remember I love you all.”
Anishca died weeks after being admitted with Covid-19 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. She had just given birth to her first daughter her second child via emergency C-section. But because of her diagnosis, she was never able to have direct contact with her child.