Giving Birth in a Coma

 We've all seen the Hollywood depiction of the person who wakes up from a coma only to find out ten years or more have passed. They spend the rest of the movie adapting to what seems to them like time travel. Some friends and family have moved, others maybe passed away, and technology is next level not to mention confusing. Well imagine your last memory was being pregnant and coming down with the flu and then your next waking experience being in a hospital with no pregnant belly. That is exactly what happened to Tess Frame in this wild but very true story.

Tess in a coma with husband Conrad at bedside

Turns out Tess, due to the size of her belly, could not properly cough up and clear her lungs during the flu episode so she soon got pneumonia and turned septic. As her lungs began to fail, her husband took her to the hospital where medical staff immediately realized the danger and put her into an induced coma along with life support. This triggered premature labor and the early birth of their baby, Tommy but despite being premature the delivery went well and the baby was healthy. It was a full 20 days later that Tess was healthy enough to be taken off life support and allowed to regain consciousness.

"I woke up in the hospital not understanding what had happened or how I'd gotten there. Or did I get in a car accident? Was I kidnapped? I didn't know what had happened!" said Tess when asked about her first reaction to waking up. Soon the doctors and nurses filled her in on the situation, recounting the 20 days of lost time and best of all, wheeled little Tommy into the room for her to see. Despite initial worries that her chance to bond had been lost, Tess soon found that thought to be silly as the little one very quickly imprinted and established a "magical" connection with his mom. Soon after she was able to go home much to the elation of husband Conrad and her other two sons.

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