A mother is speaking out about her daughter’s miraculous recovery after technically dying for 10 minutes.
32-year-old Amy Flynn was ecstatic to meet her newborn after nine months of patiently waiting during what she has described as a completely normal pregnancy.
“The labour started out absolutely fine,” the new mom, from Chesterfield, South Yorkshire, said. “I wanted it to be natural so I had a birthing pool and no drugs.”
However, after being in labor for 17 hours, Flynn knew something had gone terribly wrong with her natural birth.
The baby girl, named Lilia, had arrived totally white and lifeless. Flynn even heard the nurses frantically tell her husband, Liam, 28, to pull the emergency chord.
“Doctors took her to be resuscitated in another room and all we could do was wait,” Flynn recalled. “I was sobbing while Liam just sat there in shock, completely quiet. In all the panic, we didn’t even know if we’d had a boy or a girl.”
It took the doctors nearly 10 minutes to resuscitate her, but miraculously, they succeeded and brought Lilia back to life.
The baby girl was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit to be placed in an incubator, where she was “cooled” in an attempt to prevent brain damage.
After three days of being warmed back to a normal temperature, Lilia’s parents were relieved to learn that she was finally stable.
Unfortunately, her brain had been starved of oxygen for too long to completely prevent brain damage, and Lilia was soon diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
Still, the Flynns know they’re just lucky that their baby girl is still alive after everything she’s already been through.
“Through all of this, the one thing she does do is smile. She loves laughing and having fun, she just needs people to help her do so,” the proud mom said.
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