Young mother: Stevie Caffrey with daughter Maisie who she couldn't remember after she awoke from a coma
Only ten days after giving birth, Stevie Caffrey collapsed. With her heart and kidneys failing, doctors put her into a medically induced coma– and saved her life.
But when she came round four weeks later, she couldn’t remember that she had a daughter.
Miss Caffrey, 20, had short-term memory loss as a result of being pumped full of drugs, and has had to learn to walk again.
As she came to, a nurse said her father would be in shortly with her baby Maisie. Miss Caffrey recalled yesterday:‘I said,“I haven’t got a baby’’.’
Her boyfriend Andy Stafford– who she had also forgotten– and father Lyndon Caffrey desperately tried to jog her memory.
After two days she remembered the baby girl, but the details of her pregnancy and the birth were just a haze.
It was another three months before she could finally return home and begin to bond with Maisie, who is now four months old.
She said:‘The last two months were horrible. I just wanted to come home. I was upset because I had not seen her for a long time.’
Maisie was born on November 5 last year but after just three days Lyndon, who works for Delta Taxis, and Andy became worried when Stevie started being sick.
When she collapsed at 2.30am on November 15, paramedics took her to Fazakerley Hospital.
After a blood test, she was rushed to Liverpool Women's hospital at 5am.
Andy said: 'They thought herappendix was ruptured. But then I was told to go out of the room because her heart had stopped. It did not seem real.'
Stevie was resuscitated, rushed to the Royal Liverpool Hospital and taken straight to the operating theatre.
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