The COVID-19 pandemic has put two model new mother and father ready they by no means anticipated.
The primary-time mom had COVID-19 and her child was untimely in order that they ended up in numerous hospitals after his beginning.
The younger Paso Robles couple was excited to start out their household collectively till the coronavirus modified that.
COVID-19 security protocols made it so the mom could not see her new child for a number of days.
“I bought to carry him for a couple of seconds when he was born,” stated new mother Francesca Hamamoto who gave beginning to a child boy at Twin Cities Neighborhood Hospital.
She says her son’s respiration was okay however he was small for 37 weeks so he was transferred to the NICU at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Heart.
She was unable to go, nonetheless, as a result of she was nonetheless throughout the 10-day isolation interval from her preliminary constructive COVID-19 take a look at.
The newborn’s father, Isaac, was in a position to see his son after being cleared for COVID-19.
“I get jealous as a result of he can go in and he will get to carry him and all the opposite nurses get to the touch him and I can not even see him,” Hamamoto stated.
It has been 5 days since she’s seen her son and the younger couple says it has been a tough expertise.
“It must be the happiest day of your life and it has been nothing however stress for the each of us,” stated father Isaac Virgen.
Hamamoto was thought-about a customer since she was not transferred to the NICU whereas in isolation.
Tenet Well being’s coverage is that guests will need to have proof of vaccination or a destructive take a look at inside 72 hours.
For these in isolation, the ten days should be accomplished or two out of three exams should be destructive.
Whereas navigating the ins and outs of COVID-19, the couple is staying robust with the assistance of household and figuring out that there’s gentle on the finish of the tunnel.
“I simply need to maintain him,” Hamamoto stated.
The household says they got the okay for Hamamoto to go to the hospital on Tuesday the place they are going to come collectively as a household of three.
KSBY Information reached out to Dignity Well being, which has a NICU at Marian Regional Medical Heart, in addition to Cottage Well being in Santa Barbara. Each stated they might have the identical COVID-19 protocols in place within the uncommon occasion a child would have to be transferred whereas its mom is constructive for coronavirus.
