After waking up from a coma and hearing her baby’s screams, a mother’s bond with her newborn daughter may have saved her life.
It’s been a year since the miracle events in Concord, North Carolina, in which Shelly Cawley awoke from a profound slumber following baby Rylan’s cries.
She had gone into a coma after a C-section at the HealthCare System NorthEast in the US city.
When nurse Ashley Manus stepped in and recommended reconnecting mother and daughter, doctors were at a loss for what to do.
‘I was hoping that somewhere deep down, Shelly could still feel and hear her baby and that her mother’s instincts would kick in and she would know, “This is where I need to be,”‘ she said. People spoke with Manus.
When Rylan began to weep, it had an immediate impact.
‘On the monitor, we could observe a surge in her vitals,’ Manus continued.
‘We knew she was hearing her kid somewhere in there.’ Rylan was the one who saved her mother’s life.
“It’s nothing short of a miracle.’
‘It was the sobbing that got Shelly going again, got her fighting again,’ Mrs. Cawley’s husband concurred, adding, ‘It was the crying that got Shelly going again, got her fighting again.’ ‘I was able to reclaim my wife.’
Mrs. Cawley took a week to wake up after that, and physicians discovered she had suffered no long-term health problems.