Woman Wakes from 10-Month Coma to Discover She Had a Baby
An Italian woman has woken from a 10-month coma to discover she is the mother of a baby girl, according to local media outlets.
Cristina Rosi, 37, suffered a heart attack and slipped into a coma while she was seven months pregnant in July. As she remained unconscious, doctors performed an emergency cesarean section on Rosi to save her daughter, Caterina.
According to her husband, Gabriele Succi, Rosi's first word after waking from the coma was "momma."
"We didn't expect it," Succi told La Nazione newspaper. "It was a real joy after so much suffering."
To help in her recovery, the new mother was transferred to a neurological rehabilitation clinic in Austria, where her tracheostomy tube was removed by a team of specialists.
"My wife breathes and swallows by hers...