immune boost from infection and who wouldn t. in kansas city, mississippi, a grieving family is issuing a desperate plea to pregnant women tonight. follow the science and get vaccinated. two months ago yesterday, they lost 24-year-old broxton w braxton goodwin. she got covid in her third trimester, she died after his birth. her mother pamela goodwin joins me now. this is so difficult. our hearts go out to your family. just heartbreaking. first off, tell us about braxton, what was she like? thank you, pamela. braxton was a resilient young lady. she was energetic. she loved life. she loved her family. she loved her children, and the one reason why she didn t get
braxton died. that was the clearance that she had been waiting for. does that just only add to your family s heartbreak? yes. yes. it did. we were just i don t even think there are words that are adequate to express how we really do feel and i m so thankful that we re able to get this message out to other women that are pregnant to please talk to your doctors and seek advice and get vaccinated. i guess, you know, someone listening to this segment might think well, she talked to her doctor and the doctor advised against it. can you just walk us through kind of what happened and what the journey was like for her during her pregnancy and then sadly at the end? well, the last time i actually saw braxton and had an opportunity to talk with her and
so she decided to go back to the hospital on july the 17th because she was having a little trouble breathing and she was having pain in her stomach area and we all knew it wasn t quite time for the baby to be delivered. she was about six months at the time. and she went to the hospital on the 17th. my great grandson levi was born on the 18th and he was rushed directly into intensive care for infants and braxton never got the opportunity to even hold levi. she never got a chance to kiss him. she never got a chance to talk to him. she never got an opportunity to do that. and levi had the covid, as well.
vaccinated is because her doctor hadn t given her the go ahead to do the vaccination because of her pregnancy. so she didn t want to do anything that would harm her baby or cause any type of complications during her pregnancy, but i mean, braxton loves everything. she loved people. she loved basketball. she was an avid basketball player. her favorite was kobe bryant. i want to put that out there. she loved kobe bryant. her children meant her world. they were her world. so as you forstated about our family, we re so devastated. this has been some of the hardest times of our lives is losing braxton. i just imagine. it s worth noting the cdc didn t declare the vaccine was safe for pregnant women until early august, just over a week after