A 33-year-old mother tragically never got to hold her newborn baby as she died of coronavirus shortly after the birth. Erika Becerra from Detroit was diagnosed with Covid-19 last month when she was eight months pregnant and ended up in hospital.
She had reportedly told her mum: "Mom, I don’t feel good. I don’t feel like myself. It’s hard to breathe." Erika gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Diego Antonio Becerra, on November 15.
But her brother said she never got to bond with him before her condition deteriorated. Michael Avilez told WBTV: "She had a normal labor.
She gave birth to her son but didn’t get to hold him because right after she gave birth, that’s when they put the tube in. "Then, from there, she just started declining." Through