I ‘died’ of a heart attack in A&E and woke up 14 minutes later with a baby after docs did CPR and C-section at same time

PROUD Natasha Sokunbi hugs her occurrence babe — calved portion she was “dead”.

Natasha’s bosom stopped for 14 minutes aft she collapsed successful an A&E waiting country erstwhile 37 weeks pregnant.

Quick-thinking medics raced against time, with a 30-strong squad performing an exigency Caesarean section portion astatine the aforesaid clip giving the mum aerial and performing thorax compressions.

Natasha past had to beryllium enactment into a coma and did not conscionable her caller girl until 3 days aft the transportation drama.

Yesterday, she told The Sun: “My bosom wasn’t beating erstwhile the doctors delivered Beau. I was fundamentally dormant erstwhile they pulled her out.

“The doctors and the aesculapian teams were amazing. We tin ne'er afloat enactment what they’ve done for america into words.”

Dr Andrew Bennett, 1 of the archetypal medics connected the scene, said: “As acold arsenic I’m aware, it’s beauteous unheard of for some the mum and baby to past successful this situation.

“It is testament to the velocity of the effect of everyone connected our objective teams, who were incredible.

“There is lone a substance of minutes aft mum’s bosom stops until baby’s stops too, but we were fortunate to present her successful clip and she inactive had a pulse.

"Staff virtually ran from the different broadside of the hospital to travel to her aid. It was thing abbreviated of miraculous.”

Care enactment idiosyncratic Natasha, 30, was astir 3 weeks distant from the owed day for her 2nd girl erstwhile she called 111 for assistance with a thorax infection.

They told her to spell to casualty and aft a 25-minute taxi ride, she arrived astatine Royal Stoke Hospital astatine astir 8am connected December 3.

She checked herself successful astatine reception but went into cardiac arrest 5 minutes later.

She recalled: “The past happening I retrieve was walking done triage and I felt dizzy and collapsed.

“Then I was successful and retired of consciousness portion they were doing CPR and the C-section.

“I was truthful confused and I was successful a batch of symptom — it felt similar idiosyncratic stepping connected my chest.

“After that my adjacent representation was proceeding my hubby and my sister talking adjacent to my furniture and I was trying to aftermath up but I couldn’t due to the fact that I had been enactment into a coma.

“My hubby was telling maine to, ‘Please aftermath up’. When I came round, I noticed I didn’t person a baby successful my belly and that was truthful scary.

“They told maine what had happened but I couldn’t judge it until my hubby showed maine a photograph and told maine it was a girl.

“I felt truthful blameworthy due to the fact that I had fallen consecutive connected to my tummy and I thought I’d wounded the baby.”

Natasha added: “While I was successful infirmary I was terrified my bosom was going to halt again. I couldn’t sleep for 3 days due to the fact that I was acrophobic I wouldn’t aftermath up and I’d ne'er spot my children again.”

Both parent and babe Beau, present 2 months old, were location successful Stafford successful clip for Christmas with hubby Ayo, 29, and different daughter, Love, who is 16 months.

Natasha has had a defibrillator fitted to combat a familial bosom information that she had been treated for successful the past but had believed to beryllium nether control.

She added: “I knew getting large was a hazard but everything was good successful the checks with my cardiologist — the pregnancy was going truly well.”

Dr Bennett, 34, said: “Natasha is phenomenally fortunate that she came to A&E. If it had happened anyplace else, the result would person been rather different.

“It was simultaneously 1 of the astir unspeakable things to spot hap to a idiosyncratic and 1 of the proudest moments of my career to spot truthful galore radical enactment unneurotic that rapidly and present outstanding care.

“This is said to beryllium a erstwhile successful a vocation lawsuit for an exigency doctor. My bosom goes retired to Natasha and her family and I was overjoyed to perceive that they had been discharged and made it location successful clip for Christmas.”

Natasha, primitively from the Welsh Valleys, went on: “I americium taking it time by time and had to larn to locomotion again but we are some overmuch amended now.

"Being a mum of 2 is large and I’m regaining my spot and independence.

“Now I’m overmuch much appreciative of beingness and won’t instrumentality thing for granted ever again.” The life-saving process Natasha had is called a resuscitative hysterotomy.

Hospital crews typically usage a disguise to pump aerial into the patient’s lungs and a operation of thorax compressions and zaps from a defibrillator for the CPR.

A survey past twelvemonth estimated that the accidental of some parent and babe surviving the process could beryllium arsenic debased arsenic 4.5 per cent.

Dr Bennett was not progressive with the survey but told The Sun: “It seems arsenic though the babe lone tends to past erstwhile the cardiac apprehension happens successful infirmary — it makes a large difference.

“Anything that you bash portion CPR is going connected becomes much hard due to the fact that of each the movement.

“The mother’s endurance is the precedence but being large tin marque resuscitation much hard truthful getting the babe out, if it is the close age, rather rapidly becomes an adjacent factor.

“This is arsenic urgent arsenic a C-section tin perchance be.

“And past you spell from having 1 diligent who needs resuscitation to perchance having 2 who request it astatine the aforesaid time, truthful you request a immense fig of objective teams.”

Dozens of unit from astatine slightest 5 departments were drafted successful to propulsion it off, galore of them conscionable astir to timepiece disconnected aft a nighttime shift.

The heroic medics progressive person since received the Chief Executive Award from University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust.