Pregnant and dying of COVID-19: ‘Miracle mom’ and baby survive thanks to unprecedented double surgeries

The physiology of pregnancy takes a lot of blood flow from the mom and sends it to the placenta for the fetus. If the mom is dying, you want to let all the blood return to the mom. You take the baby out as a life-saving measure,” Hoffman said.

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Written by UCHealth on November 8, 2021