One woman from Washington state is crediting God and her faith after she gave birth in a coma while fighting an infection with the novel coronavirus. When the 27-year-old Vancouver resident awoke, her once-pregnant belly was flat and the symptoms of the illness that brought her to the hospital had dissipated. Soon thereafter, she found out she had given birth while she was unconscious.
During an interview with NBC’s “Today,” Angela Primachenko said she started feeling ill when she developed a fever — a dangerous symptom for a woman 33 weeks pregnant. So she went to the hospital where she tested positive for coronavirus. Primachenko was placed in a medically induced coma. The young mother was still unconscious when doctors induced labor and delivered her baby girl, Ava, whose name means “breath of life.”
Primachenko’s twin sister, Oksana Luiten, wrote about the harrowing experience on Instagram, admitting the “dark time” challenged her faith and trust in God. “I felt so powerless and so fearful and out of control,” she wrote. “But that’s how faith grows, going through times of uncertainty and seeing God gently calm my spirt again and again… and now seeing the end… I stand in awe of God. He is good.”
As for Primachenko, she has now been discharged from the hospital. “Even in the hardest days and the hardest times, there’s hope,” she said. “And you can rely on God and people and community. The amount of community people that were praying for me is just unbelievable. I was blown away and I’m so incredibly thankful. And I feel like I’m a miracle walking. It was just the grace of God.”