Kansas City family in need of help after mom dies days after giving birth

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Welcoming a new baby into the world brings excitement, joy, and love, but also there’s worry, with hope everything goes as planned.

Tera Cowan never made it home with the baby she gave birth to earlier this month at a Kansas City-area hospital.

Her family needs financial help right now .

“I am so angry. I do. I feel like this was preventable,” Jennifer Morgan, Tera’s sister-in-law shared.

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“After 15-16 years of trying for number two. They (the Cowans) got pregnant again,” she continued.

Tera Cowan only had nine days with her newborn baby, Emersyn.

“They have a 16-year-old, well she will be 16 on Wednesday and then, Emersyn, the new one,” Morgan added.

“Emersyn was born on Wednesday the 4th; she came out of the O.R. She had a planned C-section. She came back to the room and once we go to her, she had been in the room half the day and was sick. Couldn’t keep anything down, including water, nothing. Her heart rate kept jumping up and down. They couldn’t keep it regulated,” Morgan said.

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