New mother dies before she could hold baby
A NEW mother has died of coronavirus before she was able to hold her baby.
Sarah Scully, 35, developed Covid-19 while heavily pregnant. After giving birth she rapidly deteriorated and, after a month in a coma, she lost her life.
Her mother Elizabeth and twin brother Keiron are among the family and friends left devastated by her sudden passing. “She didn’t get to meet her baby and hug him,” said heartbroken Elizabeth, from Erdington. Birmingham.
“She was loyal, honest, caring, just a lovely daughter and mum. Now all that is gone,” Sarah’s mother added.
Sarah did get to see a photo of her baby, taken by a nurse and passed on to her, but was robbed of the chance to hold him because of her Covid diagnosis, Elizabeth said.
Both Sarah, a make-up artist at Boots, and Elizabeth fell ill in early April. Elizabeth had just completed an eight-day stint covering for ill colleagues at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust when she started to feel unwell.
As Sarah complained of feeling increasingly unwell, her mum drove her to Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
Soon after, an emergency caesarean was performed, and her baby boy was safely delivered on Easter Sunday morning. But within hours, Sarah’s condition began to deteriorate and she was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where she was put into an induced coma to help her fight the virus.
Her mother was with Sarah when her ventilator was switched off on May 12, a month after her child was born.