'I was declared clinically dead - then woke up to discover I'd given birth'

Natasha Sokunbi collapsed successful the A&E waiting country astatine the Royal Stoke Hospital and was clinically dormant portion doctors delivered her babe girl Beau via C-section

A caller mum was clinically dormant for 14 minutes arsenic she collapsed portion pregnant - earlier aboriginal waking to observe she'd fixed commencement to her daughter.

Natasha Sokunbi was astir acceptable to popular astatine 37 weeks erstwhile she was struck with thorax pains and trouble breathing connected December 3. After calling 111, she was advised to spell to A&E wherever she collapsed, going into cardiac arrest.

Medics astatine Royal Stoke University Hospital battled to revive the 30-year-old and her unborn baby, rushing her into country wherever girl Beau was delivered via an exigency C-section. Thanks to their tireless efforts implicit 30 minutes of resuscitation, Natasha became unchangeable and was capable to beryllium placed successful an induced coma.

She woke the pursuing time to larn she had given birth a babe girl, weighing 6lbs and 7oz. Natasha, who on with hubby Ayo, 29, had chosen to hold to larn the baby's sex, said it was a "complete surprise".

"My bosom wasn't beating erstwhile the doctors delivered Beau," Natasha, a enactment idiosyncratic from Stafford, said. "I was fundamentally dormant erstwhile they pulled her out. One squad of medics were delivering her via C-section portion different squad performed CPR connected me.

“The adjacent happening I retrieve was erstwhile I woke up successful intensive attraction and my hubby walked implicit to maine with a photograph of Beau and said ‘it’s a girl’." Beau remained connected a neonatal portion for respective days, successful which clip doctors told Natasha she had been "clinically dead" for 14 minutes.

“They saved my babe and they saved me,” she said. She added that time was a blur, but that she remembered being successful symptom during the C-section past "everything going black". Ayo past rushed to the infirmary aft getting the call, staying by her side.

The caller mum spent a full of 3 weeks successful infirmary and had an ICD heart-starter instrumentality fitted to forestall her suffering different cardiac apprehension successful the future. The mum-of-two is present backmost location and looking aft Beau and her 15-month-old daughter, Love.

“Beau is simply a miracle, and you tin ne'er afloat enactment what they’ve done for america it into words," she said. "The unit were each fantastic. Now I’m overmuch much appreciative of beingness and won’t instrumentality thing for granted ever again.”

Medics and nurses who treated Natasha and Beau person since been fixed a Chief Executive Award successful recognition. Dr Andrew Bennett, who was 1 of the archetypal doctors to dainty Natasha, said: “The contented erstwhile you person a parent who goes into cardiac apprehension is that you not lone person the squad required to resuscitate mum, you precise rapidly of people erstwhile the babe is out, besides person a squad acceptable to resuscitate the babe if that’s required.

“So the fig of objective teams progressive is huge. This has got to beryllium 1 of the proudest moments that this section truly has ever seen and that collaborative effect from each progressive was incredible.”