“What happened?” When Marisa Christie woke up in intensive care, her husband Dylan didn’t want to shock her with the fact that she had been clinically dead for 45 minutes. Instead, he wanted to reassure himself by telling her, “Our three babies are doing fine.” But that’s exactly what shocked his wife…
The 30-year-old couldn’t remember being pregnant with triplets. Houston’s wife’s pregnancy had gone smoothly.
The C-section at Woodlands Medical Center also went completely smoothly at first, until the woman suffered a very rare complication.
She told the Today Show: “They had put all three babies on my stomach and were cutting the umbilical cords. Then suddenly I threw my arms in the air and my heart stopped.”
Anesthesiologist as a lifesaver
Christie had suffered an amniotic fluid embolism. (In this case, the amniotic fluid entered the mother’s bloodstream and narrowed the pulmonary vessels, note.) To her great luck, the anesthesiologist present, Ricardo Mora, had already experienced such a case during a birth 15 years earlier.
It stuck with him: “The patient’s face suddenly turned gray, her breathing stopped and I knew I was dealing with a catastrophe. An amniotic fluid embolism is 85 percent fatal. We immediately started CPR.”
Mora: “The patient was clinically dead for 45 minutes. But we did everything we could to bring her back. The babies needed their mother.” Resuscitation was successful and Christie was placed in an induced coma for seven days.
When her husband finally brought her triplets Charlotte, Kendall and Collins, the memory never came back to her: “My first thought was, ‘I don’t know these babies.’ It was so surreal and they didn’t feel like they were mine.
Motherly feelings return
Marisa Christie had to stay in hospital for a total of nine weeks because internal bleeding continued to occur. She can’t remember her pregnancy. But her motherly instincts are strong: “It took a while, but I finally developed a bond with my babies. The fact that I got the chance and I’m still alive means that miracles really do exist!”
Source: Krone
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