{"id":245126,"date":"2021-05-13T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=245126"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:54:48","slug":"mom-covid-pregnant-mothers-day-six-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-covid-pregnant-mothers-day-six-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom who beat COVID-19 while pregnant spends first Mother\u2019s Day with her six children\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trichelle McDaniel of New Orleans, Louisiana, was 35 weeks pregnant with her son Brian when she started to feel dizzy while out running errands. The mother of six drove herself to the doctors office, where she was told she had a fever of almost 105 degrees. The cause of the fever was COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

As McDaniel’s symptoms worsened, doctors decided to <\/span>deliver<\/span><\/a> Brian via an emergency Cesarean section. Trichelle was put on a ventilator, and the weeks of illness rolled into months, with the virus taking a toll on Trichelle\u2019s nervous system, costing her the feeling in one of her hands and requiring the amputation of some of her toes. Because of this, Trichelle was still in the hospital and had yet to meet or hold Brian on Mother\u2019s Day of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought about that every second of the day,” Trichelle said, according to WDSU News<\/a>. “He was the new baby that I wanted to hold, and I couldn’t.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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She spent many nights crying in the hospital\u2019s intensive care unit missing her children and yearning to be with her newborn son. Finally, on May 22, 2020, Trichelle was well enough to be discharged from the hospital and go home to her family. She remembers the moment baby Brian was placed in her arms. \u201cHe grabbed my face, and that’s when I just broke down,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThis is what I was fighting for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n