Pregnant Mom Captures Baby Bump, 2 Weeks Later She’s Fighting for Her Life

Canada was ready to start his new life as a mother without knowing that she would fight for her life just two weeks later.

34 -year -old Arianne Jones gave birth to a healthy baby on January 22nd. During the worker, the umbilical cord wrapped around his son’s neck and watched during the night after he had a second degree tears on the perineum.

Her husband was with Jeff Christie, 42, and the three -person family could go home the next morning.

“Everything was quite normal … Until it didn’t,” Jones said Newsweek.

Jones, an former Olympic Indian, ran to the postpartum unit with an unexplained infection. “That’s when things began to develop quite quickly,” Christie remembered.

After 48 hours, Jones’ blood pressure was dangerously low and was admitted to the intensive care unit he had spent in a coma and 29 days in a ventilator.

“Everyone was doing their best, but nobody knew what was going on. This is the worst of the worst, Christ Christie said.

Finally, after intensive reading and research, doctors determined the cause of the cause: a rare bacterial infection with only 50 documented cases worldwide.

They also announced at that time that there were only two people who were known to have escaped the infection by removing their uterus.

Christie told Newsweek His wife’s blood profiles were so terrible, and the doctors were not sure that they could desperate life -saving surgeries.

His sons River, at home, told the new father Newsweek For the next few weeks, a “mass project manager” has become. While Christie could be in the hospital to support her wife, the family flew from different states to help child care.

“I called my family, and the children are going to Arianne’s intensive care unit. I have no idea what happened, I need a river upgrad.

There were 12 operations, including the removal of Jones’ uterus and ovaries. After months of trial and error, doctors finally provided control of the infection.

Jones told Newsweek His first memory wakes up in the hospital. “I had a breath tube and I couldn’t move the muscles in my body,” he said. “This was the most terrible moment of my life.”

After the surgery, Jones had to learn basic functions such as breathing and swallowing.

Some important internal functions and movement in his body had to do business for months to regain the movement, but 125 days later Jones was discharged from the hospital.

He told me Newsweek From the magic of being a new parent, from feeling robbed to anger, they pass through all kinds of emotions.

“Why, why? Why me? “But there is also gratitude at the same time.

Christie remembered a touching moment between the two a week after his voice recovered.

“[Arianne] ‘I’m really sorry for this process, one parent made you so long.’ He said. And I looked at him and said, ‘This is the opposite. Because you fought too much, you didn’t make me a single parent. ”

While Jones still needs to work all, Newsweek There is a new sense of clarity in life.

“[Our] The new mantra we went to, if something is not hell, yes, it’s no, “he said.

It has become a new goal to share awareness and real information about infection on the platform.

“The more we can get information there, maybe we can help someone else.” He said.