Mom delivers baby after surviving Covid-19, a heart attack and 3 strokes. - TODAYshow
and landed in the hospital with low oxygen levels. Soon, she was transferred to Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women to be intubated. She was later placed on ECMO — a heart-lung bypass machine that gives the lungs a break — and later experienced three strokes and a heart attack.
“I honestly didn’t think I would catch it again,” Diana Crouch, 28, of Kingwood, Texas, told TODAY. “I didn’t think much of it at the time because in pregnancy you just get tired.” Diana Crouch doesn’t remember much from the next several months. For the first three days, she was on oxygen. But doctors wanted to put her on a ventilator.
The ventilator kept Crouch stable, but she wasn’t improving and the doctors worried what being on a ventilator too long might do to her lungs. Her condition began “dwindling,” Dezfulian explained, and doctors recommended she be placed on ECMO. The Crouch family and medical team had to make a lot of tough choices at times to keep the mother and baby safe as she battled complications from COVID-19.Chris Crouch worried about his wife and baby. The doctors shared how precarious it was for pregnant women with COVID-19 on ECMO.
The medical team still wanted Diana Crouch to carry the baby as long as she could. She was “weaned down” on the ventilator and was breathing on her own. It seemed like she might not even need to be on the ventilator at all, but then she stopped progressing.
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