Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) -- LaShawn Traylor was rushed to the hospital as Hurricane Katrina was carving its way through South Florida on August 25, 2005. She couldn't breathe and she was seven months pregnant. Doctors told her she had an enlarged heart and needed an emergency Cesarean section or Traylor and her baby would die. Lorenzo Traylor was born weighing 2 pounds, 11 ounces. But LaShawn Traylor slipped into a medically induced coma and was put on a ventilator inside Methodist Hospital in east New Orleans, Louisiana, not far from the city's Lower 9th Ward. Read about another mother's separation story
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Days before Katrina slammed into New Orleans, LaShawn Traylor gave birth to a son
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Mother and son were separated during the evacuations
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Traylor was also separated from her husband and four other children
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CNN news report helped reunite the family
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