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A hospital consultant who gave birth to twins while in a coronavirus coma described the birth of the babies as a “miracle”.
Perpetual Uke, a rheumatology consultant, was taken to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital when she contracted Covid-19 in April and was placed on a ventilator in a medically induced coma when her condition worsened.
The doctors decided to deliver the babies by caesarean section in case the mother did not recover. Her due date was mid-July, but the babies were delivered at just 26 weeks.
But when Uke woke up from the coma and couldn’t see her bump, she feared she had lost the children.
“I couldn’t see my baby bump and thought my babies were gone,” she told Metro. “What happened is just a miracle, getting out of it.
“We are all doing very well. I remember getting sick and the ambulance coming to take me away, and then I was put into a coma.
“Coming out of the coma was the worst part. I’ve had nightmares. I was disappointed, I couldn’t see my baby bump and I thought my babies were gone and my whole family was dead.
“It was a very, very worrying time for my husband and children and even after I woke up, I couldn’t see my children for more than two weeks.”
The babies, a girl named Sochika Palmer and a boy named Osinachi Pascal, weighed only 765g (27oz) and 850g (30oz) at birth. They were taken to a neonatal intensive care unit at Birmingham Women’s Hospital while Uke recovered.
Uke’s worried husband Matthew got their prayers answered 16 days later when she came out of her coma and began her path to recovery, she told Metro.
The Birmingham City Hospital doctor has since reunited with the children, her husband and two other children: Nnamdi Ronald, 12, and Chisimdi Claire, 11.
“Coming home was the real point of healing for me,” she said. “The family is all together now and we are all very, very happy.”
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