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Mother of 6 dies from COVID-19 days after doctors deliver baby By KCAL/KCBS Staff | January 12, 2021 at 2:38 AM MST - Updated January 12 at 2:38 AM
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) - A Los Angeles family is dealing with the unimaginable loss of a mother of six, whose youngest child was delivered weeks early while her mother was fighting the coronavirus.
Veronica Guevara-Giron, 37, died Thursday, just three days after giving birth to her youngest daughter. At 8 months pregnant, 37-year-old Veronica Guevara-Giron tested positive for COVID-19. She died just three days after doctors delivered her sixth child. (Source: Family photos, KCAL/KCBS via CNN)
“She tried. She fought to keep her baby in as long as she could until the doctors ended up saying, ‘No, we have to take the baby out,’” said her sister-in-law, Nathalia Giron.
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Veronica Guevara-Giron s family has been left in mourning after she succumbed to coronavirus complications just days after giving birth to her sixth child.
According to KCBS, the 37-year-old mother from Southern California died on Thursday after being hospitalized with symptoms of the deadly respiratory disease. Her sister-in-law, Nathalia Giron, said Guevara-Giron had recently developed telltale signs of coronavirus such as coughing and difficulty breathing. She started saying that she couldn t breathe, Giron told the outlet. She developed a cough that couldn t go away, so they ended up taking her to the hospital.
Guevara-Giron was eight-months pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital. Doctors eventually delivered her daughter five weeks early as her health continued to decline.