I almost died after giving birth when a flesh-eating bug developed in my C-section incision

A caller ma has revealed she astir died aft giving commencement erstwhile she developed a flesh-eating bug successful her C-section incision.

Amber DeWitt, 31, battled necrotizing fasciitis and was enactment into a coma aft the accomplishment of her present one-year-old son, Weston, successful September 2023.

The assertive condition, which eats distant astatine steadfast tissue, tin beryllium fatal and saw a 'softball-sized' chunk of Amber's tummy removed.

The mom-of-one and concern manager, from Dallas, had a 'healthy, mean pregnancy' and had planned to person a h2o birth, but she was rushed into an exigency C-section aft her babe became stuck successful the breach position.

Weston arrived astatine September 30, 2023, astatine 9.25am weighing 6lbs 11oz. 

They were discharged 2 days, but aboriginal that week Amber grew acrophobic erstwhile her incision continued hurting.

It became progressively painful, with her yet processing a precocious temperature.

She said: 'I couldn't spell to the toilet, truthful they knew my organs were shutting down.' 

When she visited astatine a section clinic, she said doctors told her it was a mild bacterial corruption and sent her location with antibiotics. 

She said: 'They suggested I enactment a sanitary towel implicit the coiled to assistance with the moisture.

'In hindsight, I consciousness similar that mightiness person made bacteria breed more.'

When the symptom became unbearable, Amber returned to Dallas's Baylor Scott and White Hospital, wherever doctors discovered the terrifying truth.

They rushed her successful for exigency exploratory surgery, wherever they discovered she had developed sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.

They suspected the corruption had developed successful the coiled of her C-section incision.

Amber was enactment successful an induced coma for 3 days, and had 2 much operations portion asleep.

'My surgeon warned maine it was a immense cognition and that's erstwhile I realized however superior it was. There was truthful overmuch insubstantial dying and turning black, they had to support cutting away,' she said.

'They had to halt it spreading earlier it deed my captious organs. I don't retrieve thing during this time.'

She underwent exigency country to region the dying tissue, leaving her with a three-inch heavy and astir two-inch unfastened wound.

The ma added: 'During the 2nd operation, doctors told my household I wasn't going to survive.' 

Doctors warned her 32-year-old husband, Andrew, that she was 'unlikely to survive' but she defied the odds, waking up 3 days later.

Amber said: 'Doctors didn't deliberation I'd marque it done the night. I had a newborn babe and my hubby was saying his goodbyes. 

'They had to chopped distant pounds of tegument – it was the aforesaid magnitude arsenic a softball. I'm truthful grateful to beryllium here, and to beryllium capable to ticker my lad grow-up.'

She spent six days successful intensive attraction and different 8 days connected a ward earlier she was yet discharged.

Amber had a caregiver sojourn her respective times a week for the adjacent six months to proceed changing her dressings.

She said: 'It was a precise hard time, I was a caller ma and couldn't adjacent clasp my baby.

'They chopped truthful overmuch tegument away, that it created a 2nd coiled due to the fact that the tegument was excessively choky to heal. I was fortunate to person specified astonishing enactment astir me.'

After 5 surgeries and 2 weeks later, Amber returned location and was connected the roadworthy to recovery. 

She has since afloat recovered but been near with a ample scar down her abdomen aft the traumatic incident.

She said: 'I didn't person wellness insurance, and the outgo of attraction enactment maine disconnected seeking aesculapian assistance sooner.

'I kept reasoning it would get amended and it didn't. I ended up getting Medicaid - which covered the infirmary bills and backdated to the C-section.

'I worked retired I racked up astir a cardinal dollars worthy of treatment. But your wellness is not worthy worrying astir getting a infirmary measure - I enactment disconnected going and it astir outgo my life.

'I astir died and would ne'er person been present for my son. In that sense, I'm fortunate to beryllium here.'

Now, she is yet healed and is connected a ngo to impulse radical to 'listen' to their bodies if thing doesn't look right.