Woman gives birth while in a coma
A UK woman certainly has a story to tell her son when he grows up – she gave birth to him while in a coma! Danielle Johnson from Manchester in the UK went into labour five weeks before she was due after she caught pneumonia. To save the lives of both Danielle and her baby, doctors were forced to place the 24-year-old mother into an induced coma.
While she was out, surgeons delivered the baby – a perfectly healthy boy weighing six pounds. After three weeks of trying to awaken Danielle from her coma, she opened her eyes at last. But, there was trouble ahead.
When she finally woke up, she couldn’t believe her son was alive and was convinced the nurses were trying to kill her. Before even met her newborn, now 24 days old, she attacked her brother because she refused to believe her son was truly alive. Four days later, she saw him for the first time.
“When it sunk in that what went on in my head didn't actually happen – it was such a relief,” she told the Daily Mail. “I was very emotional. I just remember thinking “thank God for that – he's fine, everything's fine.’”
At first, Danielle struggled to form a bond with the baby, now named Lucas – in fact, it took three months of recovery for her to hold him for the first time. Now, one year after the terrifying ordeal, Danielle and her son are closer than ever.
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