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'I'm thankful that I'm alive': Woman gives birth while in coma from COVID-19 complications

'I'm thankful that I'm alive': Woman gives birth while in coma from COVID-19 complications
REPORTS, THE BABY IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL BUT SHOULD BE OK. (ON CAM) <XXXXXX NASHUA COMA MOM ZOOM 15:05 I'M LIKE WOW THIS IS AMAZING I'M THANKFUL THAT I'M ALIVE! 15:10 XXXXX> AND ROCIO (RO-SEE- OH) CASALDUC IS ALSO THANKFUL HER NEWBORN DAUGHTER VICTORIA IS ALIVE... WHEN THE 20 YEAR OLD FROM NASHUA DEVELOPED A DRY COUGH DURING HER SECOND PREGNANCY - SHE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS TESTED FOR COVID-19 <XXXXXX NASHUA COMA MOM ZOOM 11:17 I WAS COVID POSITIVE AND THAT'S WHEN I JUST - I JUST DROPPED I COULDNT EVEN THINK I WAS SO NERVOUS 11:28 XXXXX> ROCIO SAYS SHE ANSWERED SOME DIFFICULT QUESTIONS <XXXXXX NASHUA COMA MOM ZOOM 12:27 IF I HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ME OR MY DAUGHTER'S LIFE, WHO WOULD I CHOOSE AND THAT'S WHEN I DON'T EVEN KNOW I JUST STARTED TO CRY 12;37 XXXX> ROCIO SAYS SHE ASKED DOCTORS TO SAVE HER BABY'S LIFE BEFORE SHE WAS INTUBATED AND WENT INTO A COMA - FOR THREE WEEKS SHE WOKE UP AT DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER IN LEBANON AND LEARNED SHE HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO LITTL VICTORIA - ABOUT 3 MONTHS EARLY AND THAT HER FAMILY - HER MOTHER, SISTER, BOYFRIEND AND BABY SON ALL HAD COVID TOO - AND ALL RECOVERED - NOW BABY VICTORIA - STILL IN THE HOSPITAL - NEEDS A LITTLE MORE TIME, BUT SHE'S ON THE PATH TO RECOVERY <XXXXXX NASHUA COMA MOM ZOOM 17:03 I JUST TOLD THEM WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET HER LEAVE SO SOON, WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT, SHE'S A FIGHTER JUST LIKE ME 17:10 XXXXXX> <XXXXXX NASHUA COMA MOM ZOOM 17:52 UP TO THIS DAY TODAY SHE'S STILL FIGHTING, SHE'S STILL A LITTLE SIC
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'I'm thankful that I'm alive': Woman gives birth while in coma from COVID-19 complications
A New Hampshire mother is sharing her story after she went into a coma due to COVID-19 while pregnant and woke up to find out her baby had been born."I'm like, ‘Wow, this is amazing. I'm thankful that I'm alive,’” said Rocio Casalduc.Casalduc is also thankful her newborn daughter Victoria is alive.When the 20-year-old developed a dry cough during her second pregnancy, she went to the hospital, where she was tested for COVID-19.“I was COVID positive, and that's when I just, I just dropped. I couldn’t even think I was so nervous,” she said.Casalduc said she answered some difficult questions. “If I had to choose between me or my daughter's life, who would I choose, and that's when I don't even know, I just started to cry,” she said.Casalduc said she asked doctors to save her baby's life before she was intubated and went into a coma for three weeksShe woke up at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon and learned she had given birth to little Victoria about three months early. She also learned that her family -- her mother, sister, boyfriend and baby son -- all had COVID-19, too, and all had recovered. Related video: Ohio baby out of the NICU, home with mom who gave birth on a ventilator while fighting COVID-19Baby Victoria is still in the hospital, but she's on the path to recovery.“I just told them we're not going to let her leave so soon. We're going to fight. She's a fighter just like me,” Casalduc said.“Up to this day today, she's still fighting. She's still a little sick, but she's like me: she's a fighter,” she added.

A New Hampshire mother is sharing her story after she went into a coma due to COVID-19 while pregnant and woke up to find out her baby had been born.

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"I'm like, ‘Wow, this is amazing. I'm thankful that I'm alive,’” said Rocio Casalduc.

Casalduc is also thankful her newborn daughter Victoria is alive.

When the 20-year-old developed a dry cough during her second pregnancy, she went to the hospital, where she was tested for COVID-19.

“I was COVID positive, and that's when I just, I just dropped. I couldn’t even think I was so nervous,” she said.

Casalduc said she answered some difficult questions.

“If I had to choose between me or my daughter's life, who would I choose, and that's when I don't even know, I just started to cry,” she said.

Casalduc said she asked doctors to save her baby's life before she was intubated and went into a coma for three weeks

She woke up at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon and learned she had given birth to little Victoria about three months early. She also learned that her family -- her mother, sister, boyfriend and baby son -- all had COVID-19, too, and all had recovered.

Related video: Ohio baby out of the NICU, home with mom who gave birth on a ventilator while fighting COVID-19

Baby Victoria is still in the hospital, but she's on the path to recovery.

“I just told them we're not going to let her leave so soon. We're going to fight. She's a fighter just like me,” Casalduc said.

“Up to this day today, she's still fighting. She's still a little sick, but she's like me: she's a fighter,” she added.