“The baby and the mother had become each other’s savior”
Betina and her son Elvin. Betina was in a coma virtually her entire pregnancy.
Doctors in Kottayam, India, were left speechless—and understandably so. Last January, a woman described only as Betina had arrived at Caritas Hospital “half dead” after a nasty fall left her with a severe brain injury.
“The rate of her heart beat plunged to just 23% and she couldn’t breathe in oxygen as her lungs were swollen,” reported A.S. Ullas of the Indian news site Manorama Online. She was in a coma.
And if those weren’t enough complications ,no sooner had doctors told the family they could not do anything more than her husband, Anoop, told Dr. Vivek of the emergency medical department that his wife was pregnant!
The medical team sprung into action but were unable to stabilize Betina’s condition. According to Ullas, given the strong medicines Betina was on and the baby’s low heartbeat, they doubted her nine-week-old unborn baby boy would survive. An abortion was planned and Betina was moved to Kottayam Medical College.
“The doctors at the medical college, however, said the foetus would be aborted naturally, and a medical procedure could put the mother’s life at further risk,” Ullas reported.
“But God had some other plans for Betina and her unborn child.”
Click here for much more from NRL News Today.
