A woman walks near Google offices in New York
Google announced on January 20 it was laying off around 12,000 workers.
  • Natasha Nesiba was a senior software engineer at Google, where she focused on YouTube Kids.
  • On January 20, Nesiba lost her job at Google and went into labor with her second child.
  • "I'm at my most vulnerable, physically, mentally, and emotionally," she told Insider.

An engineer said she couldn't stop shaking and crying after finding out she'd been laid off by Google hours before going into labor and giving birth to her second child.

"What was supposed to be a beautiful and exciting day of labor was really overshadowed by all of this shock and terrible news," Natasha Nesiba told Insider.