A woman who worked for Google for almost a decade says she was in the hospital bed holding her hours-old newborn when she learned she was part of the 'golden12K' of laid-off Googlers

• Kate Howells found out she had been laid off from Google hours after giving birth.
• She was one of the 12,000 Google employees caught in the latest slew of tech layoffs.
• Howells said Google has not responded to her query about whether she will get her maternity leave benefits.

Kate Howells gave birth to her second child on January 19. She said that barely ten hours later, while still in the hospital holding her baby, she found out that she had been laid off from her job at Google. 

She was one of the 12,000 Google employees caught in the latest slew of tech layoffs, which was announced on Friday.