A Brazilian nurse who gave birth while unconscious and breathing through a ventilator tube as she fought the coronavirus finally went home with her newborn daughter Monday.

Rusia Goes,  42, was in her 35th week of pregnancy was admitted to Santa Lúcia Maternity Hospital in Rio de Janeiro on April 24 due shortness of breath and other COVID-19 symptoms. 

Her health quickly deteriorated and by April 26, while Goes was unconscious and PTS Terbaik ASEAN on a ventilator, doctors performed an emergency cesarean.  

The nurse had to be resuscitated after giving birth and was transferred to another hospital where she remained connected to the respirator devices until May 8. 

Goes met her premature daughter via a video conference on May 9 while her husband Ednaldo Souza held the Luiza in a separate hospital room over fears she could spread coronavirus to the infant.

She finally held her daughter for the first time May 20, and on Monday, her daughter was officially discharged from the medical facility.  

‘Only God knows how much I missed that little one, who had been inside me, and all of a sudden was taken out because of all of this,’ the health worker said. 

Rusia Goes, a nurse who gave birth on April 26 hooked to a ventilator tube to help her breath as she battled severe symptoms of COVID-19, carries her daughter Luiza on Monday after the newborn was discharged from Santa Lúcia Maternity Hospital in Rio de Janeiro

Rusia Goes, a nurse who gave birth on April 26 hooked to a ventilator tube to help her breath as she battled severe symptoms of COVID-19, carries her daughter Luiza on Monday after the newborn was discharged from Santa Lúcia Maternity Hospital in Rio de Janeiro

Rusia Goes (right) was in the 35th week of her pregnancy when she fell ill and contracted the coronavirus and was forced to undergo a caesarian section April 26, two days after she was admitted to a Rio de Janeiro hospital. She met Luiza (left) via a video conference May 9 for the first time

Rusia Goes (right) was in the 35th week of her pregnancy when she fell ill and contracted the coronavirus and was forced to undergo a caesarian section April 26, two days after she was admitted to a Rio de Janeiro hospital. She met Luiza (left) via a video conference May 9 for the first time 

Health workers congratulate Rusia Goes (first from right) on Monday as the exited the hospital with her newborn baby daughter Luiza (second from right)

Health workers congratulate Rusia Goes (first from right) on Monday as the exited the hospital with her newborn baby daughter Luiza (second from right)

Goes is one of 391,222 Brazilians infected by the virus, now the world’s second-biggest outbreak after the United States. The South American nation has reported 24,512 deaths. 

While she normally works as a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit, Goes stayed home once the coronavirus outbreak started. 

Souza suspects he may have transmitted the virus to her as he continued to go out to work and shop for the family.  

Rusia Goes (second from right) finally was able to take her newborn daughter (pictured in Goes' arms) almost a month after the 42-year-old nurse had to undergo a cesarean section due to her infection with the coronavirus . Picture right is her husband Ednaldo Souza

Rusia Goes (second from right) finally was able to take her newborn daughter (pictured in Goes’ arms) almost a month after the 42-year-old nurse had to undergo a cesarean section due to her infection with the coronavirus . Picture right is her husband Ednaldo Souza

Rusia Goes pictured with her newborn daughter Luiza and her eight-year-old daughter Julia

Rusia Goes pictured with her newborn daughter Luiza and her eight-year-old daughter Julia

Rusia Goes (wearing pinstriped jumpsuit) carries her newborn daughter Luiza on Monday, almost a month after the baby was delivered by the 42-year-old nurse, who was sickened with COVID-19 and connected to a ventilator while she gave birth via cesarean section April 26

Rusia Goes (wearing pinstriped jumpsuit) carries her newborn daughter Luiza on Monday, almost a month after the baby was delivered by the 42-year-old nurse, who was sickened with COVID-19 and connected to a ventilator while she gave birth via cesarean section April 26

The baby tested negative for the virus and was isolated from Goes until the mom was cleared of the virus. 

She said the battle with the respiratory disease was hard and ‘very painful,’ but slowly she was able to recover. 

Goes was finally released from the hospital after two weeks and first met her daughter in person on May 20 – some 26 days after giving birth. 

Masked medical staff gathered with balloons and applauded as Goes left the hospital with her baby in her arms on Monday.

‘To hold her to my chest was so emotional,’ she said.