Alabama mother hospitalized with COVID-19 meets new child son for first time

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WKRG) – A 911 dispatcher hospitalized with COVID-19 at an Alabama hospital lastly met her son 17 days after giving start.

Nurses on the College of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital organized for Dakota Vest-Wright to carry her son for the primary time final Friday, two days earlier than Mom’s Day.

Vest-Wright was recognized with COVID-19 on April 9 and admitted to the emergency room at a Cell, Alabama hospital 5 days later. She was critically sick and pregnant along with her second little one when she was transferred to UAB Hospital on April 19.

Vest-Wright gave start at UAB’s Girls and Infants Heart on April 20, the identical day she was placed on additional corporeal membrane oxygenation, a know-how utilizing a conveyable coronary heart and lung bypass machine. On Could 6, she was lastly taken off ECMO and nurses started planning the long-awaited assembly, which occurred the subsequent day.

Vest-Wright and her son, Bruce, proceed to obtain care at UAB Hospital. A GoFundMe web page has been established to assist the household.