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For mothers with coronavirus, baby's first coo is over the phone

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Maxim Shemetov, Reuters

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/05/27/20200527-newborn-baby-rtr.jpg"/><figcaption>A newborn baby is seen in the maternity ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, Britain, May 22, 2020. Steve Parsons/Pool via Reuters</figcaption></figure></div>MOSCOW - &quot;It&#x27;s a girl and she is fine, we all are fine,&quot; said Rayhona, 23. &quot;They have shown her to me on a smartphone.&quot;More than 150 babies have been born to mothers with suspected coronavirus infections at Moscow&#x27;s City Clinical Hospital Number 15, and the hospital says not a single newborn caught the infection. But to achieve that, the babies are separated from their mothers at birth, breastfeeding is banned, and the mothers are kept quarantined in a ward for two weeks.Rayhona wore a mask and was hooked up to medical devices, sharing a room with another new mother also suspected of carrying the virus.The mothers &quot;are admitted with some respiratory distress already and we need to be very professional to determine when to deliver the baby and how to deliver it,&quot; the hospital&#x27;s head doctor, Valeriy Vechorko, told Reuters. &quot;I can say this for sure – we did not have a single transmission of the virus to a baby.&quot;Until they are released from quarantine, mothers can communicate with their new babies only via video calls.The mothers &quot;are scared - more scared than usual at least - as they are worried not only about themselves but about their baby as well,&quot; said hospital cardiologist Olga Lapochkina.&quot;We try to keep mothers in touch with the babies via video links. Doctors show them and it really helps.&quot;

More than 150 babies have been born to mothers with suspected coronavirus infections at Moscow's City Clinical Hospital Number 15, and the hospital says not a single newborn caught the infection.

More than 150 babies have been born to mothers with suspected coronavirus infections at Moscow's City Clinical Hospital Number 15, and the hospital says not a single newborn caught the infection.

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For mothers with coronavirus, baby's first coo is over the phone

Maxim Shemetov,

Reuters

Published May 28, 2020 01:27 AM PHT

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