27-year-old Mother Dies In Emergency Caesarean Section

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A 27-year-old Hispanic mother died during an emergency C-section in California. As Fresno Bee reports, Charlene Flores arrived at a hospital in Fresno complaining of labor pains weeks before the scheduled date for the birth of her daughter. Although her husband, Elesandro Flores Jr., did not want to leave her side, Charlene asked him to drop her off at the hospital and take her three other daughters to school.

Soon after, the mother called her husband again and asked him to return urgently to the hospital. That would be the last time the couple would speak. "She called me on Facetime and said, 'I need you here now,'" Elesandro, 30, told KFSN. Charlene had internal bleeding and the hospital performed an emergency C-section to save her baby.

Charlene had heart problems and had another operation last summer, making the C-section more risky, according to Fresno Bee. Although the operation survived, the mother died shortly after.

Her husband recalls that in the hospital they called an emergency "blue code" and several doctors and nurses ran to attend to his wife. In the end, she received the news that her daughter was recovering in an incubator and Charlene had lost her life.

The newborn, Quinn Nevaeh Flores, was born premature and will have to stay a few more weeks in the hospital's NICU unit. A GoFundMe account was created to help the family with Charlene's funeral expenses.

Elesandro and his other daughters - Lanyssa Vasquez, 12; Kiara Flores, 12; and Adriene Flores, 8 - are still processing Charlene's death. The best gift the mother left them is her newborn baby sister, who has given the family strength to keep going.