28yo pregnant nurse has died, baby delivered by Caesarean

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Desperately sad. Channel 4 News covering this tonight, apparently.

www.channel4.com/news/pregnant-nhs-nurse-dies-with-coronavirus-but-baby-saved

A 28yo nurse, presumably working in a hospital, or with patients anyway, while heavily pregnant, fell ill and as her condition deteriorated the baby was delivered by Caesarean. The mother seemed to be improving but then took a turn for the worse and died shortly afterwards. I hope her baby girl is OK.

This is heartbreaking. Can’t even imagine the fear and pain for her and her family.

This is so sad. Thoughts are with her family 💖💐

Here's me worrying about the weight I've put on. Total slap in the face perspective. I wish I could do something I really do. NHS workers are just superheroes. Come on baby.

I think pregant people are only currently vulnerable. They may need to review that.

Not sure.

Most pregnant women experience nothing at all from covid-19

www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-hospital-finds-high-covid-19-infection-rate-but-few-symptoms-in-pregnant-women/2372863/

Circumstances of current case are far from clear

This is so heartbreaking. So is the story of the child in foster care. These poor, poor families. How shameful that we, as a wealthy Western society, could not get the correct protective wear in time to reduce the risk to our frontline health workers.

How awful for her and her family.

34 weeks myself and doing my best to just be at home but anything seems to be a risk now and there’s so many unknowns

Even if she was already on maternity leave, there are ante natal appointments at hospitals, shopping being bought into the house, new purchases for baby required.

There’s only so much you can protect yourself. It feels like a lottery

Sorry about DM link, but this is a report of the death at the Whittington

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8194317/Mother-suffering-coronavirus-dies-labour-London-hospital-medics-save-child.html

It was last week, and this is the first I'd heard of it

Heartbreaking and terrifying. My anxiety is through the roof this pregnancy

I was speaking with someone whose daughter is pregnant and a nurse. They had been told if they didn't come into work, it would be classed as unpaid leave. This was about three weeks ago, so things might have changed since then.

But, as an employer and married to someone who is officially shielding, it's my understanding that pregnant women are in the vulnerable (not shielding) group. It's pregnant women with a heart condition that have been told the shield. The rest are at the mercy of their employers.

I sent my pregnant employees home the minute there was suggestion they might be vulnerable, but I don't think everyone else does that

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It doesn’t actually state that she was working, just that she is a nurse and was heavily pregnant. She may have been on maternity leave already or at home and contracted it somewhere else.

More than likely, she contracted the virus over four weeks ago. I don't think she is likely to have been on maternity leave for that length of time before the birth unless she decided to leave early due to fears of coronavirus.

Awful. RIP to this poor lady and the 43 other NHS workers who have died.

Whatever the circumstances, this is heartbreakingly sad.

A young woman dead, a baby left motherless and a family destroyed.

Is this the lady who was on the tv a week or two ago?

I feel so sorry for all. The mum, the dad, their friends and family and the baby who will never remember being held by her mum.

Fuck. That's made me cry.

What can we do?

This one has really got me. God bless her and her tiny baby.

I cant stop crying. So much grief and sadness .
I would like some of the funds raised by lovely Tom to go to the children of families that have lost a parent to this horrendous virus. Even £10k in a trust fund would be a great gesture.
So sad

I thought I read she was on maternity leave but I am not 100%. We don't know yet what the background was to her illness. Not all the NHS staff will have caught this at work - one family if a nurse confirmed she had not been working at all n the period before her illness.
Every death is awful.

Tiny babies are ventilated every day. Preemies are probably one of the most ventilated groups in fact.
My own DD was only 4lbs at birth and was ventilated for a month

It says in this article that she was on maternity leave at the time of contracting the virus.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11403855/pregnant-nurse-dies-coronavirus-baby-survives/?utmcampaign=sunmainfacebookbreaking&utmmmedium=Social&utmsource=Facebook

This is heartbreaking

A 28yo nurse, presumably working in a hospital, or with patients anyway, while heavily pregnant,

This is so sad and my heart goes out to her baby and her family. However, you have no idea whether she was still working while heavily pregnant, or whether she contracted the virus in the line of duty.

another life lost, just as sad as all the others

glad her child survived it

This is incredibly sad.

I’m going to change some details so this would not identify them but

I know of a 16 year old who was so badly let down by social services following the loss of their single parent (non covid related in 2019) that they ended up admitted to hospital with covid pneumonia worsened by malnutrition. They’d slipped through the net and been without food or support while schools were closed. Unclear as to why they weren't offered a place due to vulnerabilities

Unfortunately not all hospital trusts are protecting their pregnant staff. I’ve had to take 5 weeks off sick before my maternity kicks in because they wanted me to still work on the front line, in touch with patients and in my third trimester. I feel fortunate that I was almost at the end and was able to do that, but it made me so angry that the guidelines for pregnancy are so clear from both the RCN and the RCOG and yet are being ignored x