{"id":237353,"date":"2021-01-05T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237353"},"modified":"2021-01-04T22:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:34:55","slug":"diagnosed-covid-birth-beat-odds-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/diagnosed-covid-birth-beat-odds-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosed with COVID-19 the day before giving birth, she beat the odds and survived"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florette Johnson learned she had COVID-19 in April, the day before she gave birth to her baby girl. She had pneumonia, and as she went into labor her oxygen began to drop. Doctors saw as Johnson struggled, coughing with every breath, and prepped her for a C-section.<\/p>\n

“At this time, I was already 10cm,” she told Love What Matters<\/a>. “I felt the contraction, so I pushed. I closed my eyes and asked God for the breath and strength to push. The doctor was shocked. [Thirty] minutes later, my Angel was born. They immediately took her away. I did not get to see her clearly or touch her. The doctor called for help because my breathing became worse. She and [three] others rushed me to the ICU.”<\/p>\n

With her condition worsening, Johnson was only able to see her newborn daughter through FaceTime. Four days after the ordeal began, a nurse explained to Johnson that she, herself, might not survive.<\/p>\n

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