Woman Wakes From Coma, Gives Birth to Healthy Girl

Angel and his daughter, Angel. Photo by Angel Quiles/Facebook.

Jenny Quiles, a pregnant Florida woman who fell into a coma after being hit by a tow truck earlier this month, awoke on Wednesday to gave birth to a healthy baby girl via Caesarean section.

“The baby is great, she’s alert, she weighs six pounds,” Jenny’s husband, Angel, tells Yahoo Parenting of his new daughter, Angel Noemi, who is in the neonatal intensive care unit because she was born a month and a half premature. While Jenny, 36, remains awake and alert, she’s still in critical condition. “We don’t know yet how bad the damage is,” explains Angel, 35. “It’s going to be a slow process. Right now it’s like she’s an innocent child who doesn’t really know what’s going on.”

Jenny, an accountant, was crossing a street in St. Petersburg on her way to a doctor’s appointment on October 15 when she was hit by the tow truck. She was taken to the local Bayfront Hospital, where she has remained in intensive care.

Angel and Jenny in the hospital. Photo courtesy of Angel Quiles/Go Fund Me.

Physician Jennifer Gilby, the Quiles’ obstetrician, told the St. Petersburg Tribune that the last two weeks have been very emotional. “Fortunately there have been no major complications in [the mother’s] health that have put the baby at risk,” she said. ”It’s a beautiful success story that we can bring this baby into the world, and hopefully help mom improve and get better.”

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Angel, a certified medical assistant, says he worked with hospital staff to gain permission for Jenny to hold her new infant for the first time on Friday night. “I want to see if it will snap her out of it, mentally,” he says. “I think it’s worth a shot.” Although he’s been dealing with the worry of his wife’s touch-and-go situation, the high emotional state of becoming a first-time father, and the piling-up medical bills, Angel says he’s doing well. “I’m just tired, very tired. But I’m in good spirits,” he says, owing it to the birth of his daughter. “How can I not be in good spirits with this new blessing in my life?”

Jenny and Angel in happier times. Photo by Angel Quiles/Facebook.