Mom Awakes From Near-Fatal Coma When She Hears Newborn’s Cry

After nine months of a healthy pregnancy, it’s easy for parents to feel excited, like they’re in the clear, before welcoming their newborn into the world.

Unfortunately, as we’ve seen too many times, childbirth can be extremely dangerous for some women, and for the occasional new mother, even deadly. Much like this mom, who is grateful for both her and her daughter to be alive after suffering medical problems post-childbirth, the story of Shelly Ann Cawley swept the nation when this new mom’s life was saved by the tiny one she just gave life to.

The 23-year-old North Carolina mom underwent an emergency C-section on the day she was set to give birth to her daughter in 2014, but instead of it being a joyous occasion, it became the most terrifying day of her husband’s life. Shelly fell into a coma while under anesthesia when a blood clot created internal bleeding for the mom-to-be while in surgery. Doctors did everything they could to save baby girl Rylan, who was born healthy, but they feared the worst for her mother.

“The doctors had done all they could and it was clear, they absolutely thought they were losing her at this point,” Jeremy Cawley told PEOPLE of the horrifying day. After a few hours, the doctors were worried when Shelly didn’t wake up, so one of the delivery room nurses decided to try the power of skin-to-skin contact with her new baby, since it had worked the other way around in the past.

The brilliant nurse encouraged the baby to cry as loud as possible and after a few minutes, a miracle occurred. Rylan’s wail awoke her mother from the coma and after weeks of recovery, she was healed and ready to finish nursing school.

Today, Shelly Ann Cawley works as a nurse at the same hospital where her peers saved her life.

“It’s pretty awesome. I cross paths with some of the people who saved me all the time,” she told PEOPLE “I have people that come up to me because they know the story and they’re thrilled to see me because nobody thought I was going to live.”

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Mom Awakes From Near-Fatal Coma When She Hears Newborn’s Cry is an article from: LifeDaily