Mom was clinically dead for 45 minutes after giving birth to triplets due to rare medical complication during labor

A Texas mother was “clinically dead” for 45 minutes after successfully delivering triplets during a planned C-section following a “catastrophic” medical occurrence that usually’s “about 80%, 85% fatal.”Marisa Christie, 30, and her husband, Dylan, were excited but nervous when doctors told them during her first ultrasound for her second pregnancy that she appeared to be carrying triplets, she told TODAY.com.“They were like, ‘We’re pretty sure it’s twins.There might be a third one hiding,’” she told the outlet.

“I was in complete shock.” Christie, 33 weeks pregnant, arrived for her scheduled C-section at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center North of Houston on Aug.21.Her babies were successfully delivered by her maternal-fetal medicine physician, Dr.

Amber Samuel, and were resting on top of her when things took an abrupt turn for the worse.Christie had begun seizing.“My arms flew up, and that was when my heart stopped,” she told the outlet.The anesthesiologist for the c-section, Dr.

Ricardo Mora, realized “She (was) essentially gray” and said he “knew something terrible just occurred.”Mora, who said he was the anesthesiologist during a delivery where a mom experienced similar symptoms 15 years ago, immediately knew Christie was experiencing an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) — a rare but often fatal birth complication.“It’s pretty catastrophic.When it occurs, it’s about 80%, 85% fatal,” Mora told the outlet.“I asked Dr.

Samuel what she had done.She related to me that she had just started pulling the placenta out and that’s usually the time when this occurs — the separation of the placenta and uterus.” Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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