A Wisconsin mother who gave birth in a COVID-related medically induced coma on Nov. 4 was finally able to meet her baby -- three months after the child was born.
See the moments she met baby Lucy and reuinted with her husband for the first time in the video above.
At one point, the doctors thought Kelsey Townsend would need a double lung transplant. A breathing machine kept her alive for 64 days.
But she fought her way through, and nearly three months after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and giving birth to her newborn baby in a coma, Townsend was discharged from University Hospital in Madison last Thursday.
It was a long road to get there. Townsend was nine months pregnant in October when she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and by the time she gave birth the virus had devastated her body to the point that doctors had placed her in a medically induced coma.
While in a coma, Townsend's condition quickly deteriorated and she ended up on life support. In December, UW Health doctors determined that Kelsey would need a double lung transplant to survive, and her husband delivered the news to her on Christmas Eve.
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"But just days after being added to the lung transplant waiting list, Kelsey's condition started to improve significantly - enough so that she was moved out of the intensive care unit, taken off the ventilator in mid-January, and then subsequently removed from the transplant waiting list," the hospital said in a press release.
Last Thursday, Jan. 27, Kelsey was finally discharged from University hospital and reunited with her husband and four kids, including the baby girl she'd never met.