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Giving Birth in a Coma

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 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...