That was devastating: Woman shares clinical death experience after giving birth
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Hannah, a young mother of two, experienced clinical death after the birth of her second child. Her heart stopped for nearly a minute.
Mirror reports what the woman experienced during those 60 seconds.
What Hannah felt during clinical death
The incident was caused by serious postpartum complications and made Hannah question whether she would ever dare to have a third child.
She admits the experience was so intense that she now fears trying for another pregnancy.
It all started with warning signs
Hannah’s second delivery was difficult. Her son was born at 36 weeks with intestinal obstruction and required emergency surgery. Hannah herself had a diagnosis of intrauterine growth restriction.
Despite these challenges, she delivered naturally at 1:33 a.m., and everything initially seemed fine.
“I was walking around like everything was totally cool until about 10 hours later. Later that day, in the morning, I was at the NICU with my baby, and it was just down the hall, and I started getting some really bad cramps,” she recalls.
She went to the bathroom and noticed large blood clots. Returning to her son in the ICU, she felt pain that surpassed even labor contractions.
“I told my husband, I was like, can you please grab this baby, I think something's wrong. So he grabs the baby, I stand up, and I feel this gush and so much blood, so many clots, I had to cover myself with a towel and be wheeled back to the maternity ward,” Hannah says.
Chaos in the ward and a strange sense
Doctors discovered that fragments of the placenta had remained in her uterus. She underwent a removal procedure, but the bleeding did not stop. Her condition rapidly worsened.
Hannah remembers about 20 medical staff rushing into the ward. Her vision began to blur, yet she noticed some details with unusual clarity.
“They lay me back, and I look across the room, and I can see my water bottle, and I start thinking 'gosh, I'm so thirsty I wish someone would just get in my water bottle'... and I've watched a lot of shows, and I was like that's not good,” she shared.
When a doctor shouted, “Prepare the operating room!”, Hannah briefly thought she would lose her uterus. At that moment, her heart stopped.
What happened next, she describes as an out-of-body experience.
“I couldn't see myself, but I saw the room like from above, and it was really crazy, and then the white light. This was insane, it's like a train came straight at me and like blasted me up into oblivion,” she said.
According to Hannah, she felt overwhelming calm, with a tinge of sadness.
“It was extremely peaceful, I felt overwhelming peace, but with a touch of sadness because I knew I was never gonna see my kids again. That was really devastating to me, but it was almost just like a shoulder shrug because I was just like 'well there's nothing I can do about it,’” the mother recalls.
