In a video, one woman says her family were told she would not survive after giving birth with Covid.
The video also features doctors and frontline staff who treated the women - they warn of the dangers of the virus for pregnant women and their babies.
"The day after I was intubated, the nurse told them they were going to switch the machine off, but instead I was transferred to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, which is a last resort for patients with severe heart and lung failure, and it saved my life," she said. Christina, a mental health therapist from Guildford, told BBC Breakfast when she went to get her jab she was turned away as at the time it was not recommended for pregnant women. She said her partner and son were hospitalised with Covid but she did not catch it until 42 days later.
Around one in five women who are admitted to hospital with the virus need to be delivered preterm to help them recoverSince April 2021, around 84,000 pregnant women have received one dose and more than 80,000 have received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccineJoanne caught Covid while pregnant and could not feel her baby kicking
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