Wisconsin woman finally meets baby she gave birth to while in COVID-19 coma
By: WTMJ Staff
and last updated 2021-02-01 10:56:19-05
MADISON â Nearly three months after being diagnosed with COVID-19, a Wisconsin woman was discharged from the hospital and finally able to hold her baby she gave birth to while in a coma.
UW Health says Kelsey Townsend was nine months pregnant with her baby, Lucy, when she was diagnosed with COVID-19 in October. Kelsey was in a medically induced coma and gave birth to Lucy at University Hospital on Nov. 4.
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Kelsey spent several months on an ECMO machine and a ventilator. Doctors believed she would need a double lung transplant to survive after her condition worsened.
Woman who gave birth while in a coma and battling COVID-19 meets newborn for first time
February 1, 2021 8:52 AM Logan Rude
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MADISON, Wis. Nearly 3 months after she gave birth while in a coma and battling COVID-19, a UW Health patient was finally reunited with her family, including her newborn daughter she had never met, Lucy.
Kelsey Townsend was discharged from University Hospital on Thursday after a months-long battle with COVID-19, according to a spokesperson with UW Health.
Townsend was nine months pregnant in October, 2020 when she was diagnosed with COVID-19. She gave birth to Lucy on Nov. 4, 2020 while in a medically induced coma.
WI mom who gave birth in coma holds newborn after beating COVID
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WI mom who gave birth in coma holds newborn after beating COVID
A Poynette mom who made a miraculous recovery from COVID-19, giving birth while in a coma, was able to hold her newborn daughter for the first time.
MADISON, Wis. - A Poynette mom who made a miraculous recovery from COVID-19, giving birth while in a coma, was able to hold her newborn daughter for the first time on Jan. 27.
A news release from UW Health officials said Kelsey Townsend was nine months pregnant in October when she was diagnosed with COVID-19.
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