{"id":262888,"date":"2022-02-18T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=262888"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:11:06","slug":"miracle-pregnant-mom-survives-covid-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/miracle-pregnant-mom-survives-covid-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"MIRACLE: Pregnant mom survives COVID, heart attack, and strokes to safely deliver baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A pregnant woman who contracted COVID-19 is expected to make a full recovery after spending over 120 days in the hospital. Diana Crouch survived COVID (while intubated), a heart attack, three strokes, and childbirth. Despite the difficulties of the experience, the family says their faith helped show them what to do.<\/p>\n

At 18 weeks pregnant in August of 2021, Crouch received a positive COVID-19 test. Though her symptoms originally were mild, she eventually ended up in the emergency room with COVID pneumonia. It was a surprise for Crouch and her husband, Chris, because she had already contracted the virus before. \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t think I would catch it again,\u201d she told TODAY<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t think much of it at the time because in pregnancy you just get tired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even after going to the emergency room, neither of them had any idea of what was to come. \u201cI still didn\u2019t think anything of it because even people that I knew at work that went to the hospital were just put on oxygen for a few days and they went home,\u201d Chris told TODAY. \u201cI thought we\u2019d be back home after five days. Unfortunately, it turned into 139 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, Diana was put on oxygen, but after three days, doctors wanted to put her on a ventilator. \u201cShe said, \u2018I\u2019m not going on a ventilator,\u2019 and I remember the nurse saying, \u2018Well I\u2019m trying to save your life,\u2019\u201d Chris said. \u201cThen they put her on a BiPAP machine shortly after that, which is a little more stronger flow of oxygen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her condition continued to get worse, and eventually, they had no choice but to use the ventilator. Chris told KTRK<\/a> that he thought it would only be about a week, but after 17 days, she was declining even more. Dr. Cameron Dezfulian, medical director of adult congenital heart inpatient care at Texas Children’s Hospital, decided to place Diana on ECMO.<\/p>\n

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