A Missouri woman is opening up about losing her baby last year after she contracted COVID-19.Vanessa Alfermann, who's a COVID-19 nurse at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, said she and her husband got sick in November with the virus. She was 20 weeks pregnant at the time.About two weeks later, she woke up in the middle of the night 바카라 게임 웹사이트� in labor."I realized that, you know, something, something bad was going on," Alfermann told KMOV-TV.She gave birth to her son, who they named Axel, at just 22 weeks gestation. He died within moments of being born. Doctors told her that COVID-19 caused a blood clot to form in her placenta that erupted.Now, with the delta variant of COVID-19 rapidly spreading, doctors say there is a way pregnant woman can combat the virus."The best protection pregnant women have against these complications is getting vaccinated," Dr. Asal Fathian, a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, told the TV station. "We know it's a safe vaccine in pregnancy. Women do well with it, and it's just your best way of protecting yourself and your baby."Watch the video above to learn more about this story.