Yanira Soriano held her son, Walter, for the first time this week 12 days after he was born.
of Bay Shore, New York, was admitted to Southside Hospital earlier this month. The 36-year-old, who was then in her 34th week of pregnancy, had been having difficulty breathing., after which doctors decided to put her in a medically induced coma and place her on a ventilator.Though Soriano was taken off of the ventilator on Monday, she had to wait until Wednesday to be discharged from the hospital, at which point she finally got to hold her baby.
“In most instances, you’re awake when you deliver the baby and you can bond with the baby right away,” Dr. Benjamin Schwartz of Southside Hospital. “But in this context, because the mom was so ill, she had to be put on a ventilator and put to sleep right before the baby was born.” “She was not awake when her baby was born and did not hear the baby cry or have any opportunity to meet him right after his birth,”
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