The birth of a coronavirus carrier's baby in Australia was different, for all the right reasons (The Sydney Morning Herald)

_{By Aisha Dow, April 27, 2020, The Sydney Morning Herald.}

Australian doctors who delivered a coronavirus carrier's baby say they have achieved what could be a world first – by keeping an infected mother together with her newborn.

Overseas, infants and mothers with the disease have been physically separated for 14 days after a scheduled caesarean section and prevented from breastfeeding.

But when a 31-year-old woman with coronavirus gave birth at the Gold Coast University Hospital last month, obstetricians said they were able to keep the family together in an isolation room, despite both parents testing positive to the infection.

“Doing a caesarean section and taking someone's baby away for two weeks is a pretty radical step,” the hospital’s director of obstetrics, Dr Benjamin Bopp, said.

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