MUM Carrie-Anne Osborne gave birth to a baby girl — while in a coma as she battled Covid.
Pregnant Carrie-Anne, 32, was put in the medically-induced coma when her lungs began to fail in hospital.
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The last thing she remembered was a voice saying to her: “We have to deliver your baby.”
Five weeks later she came round to be told she had beaten the virus — and was mum to a healthy girl she has named Storm.
She said: “Holding her for the first time was magical. I’ll never forget it.”
Carrie-Anne was 32 weeks gone when she became sick a few days before Christmas.
A Covid test was positive and she was soon seriously ill.
She said: “I found it harder and harder to breathe. It felt like a hippo was sitting on my chest.”
Her lips, fingers and toes all went blue due to a lack of oxygen.
Carrie-Anne, mum to Poppy-Anne, seven, Willow, three, and Skye, one, managed to call an ambulance.
She said: “I thought I was going to die. They had no choice but to put me in a coma.
“My body wasn’t strong enough to support the both of us.”
After the birth, Storm tested negative for Covid and dad Lewis Duncan, 29, was able to take her home.
Carrie-Anne remained in intensive care, reviving long enough for nurses to tell her she was a mum.
Her condition worsened and her family was warned she may die but she fought back, meeting Storm on February 12.
Sister Leanne Osborne, 44, who kept a picture diary of Carrie-Anne’s progress, said: “I didn’t think she’d make it. There was a big black cloud hanging over the family.”
Carrie-Anne, of Hartlepool, Co Durham, is now back home but very weak.
She said: “I’ll get there. After every storm there’s a rainbow and my recovery is our family’s rainbow — so there could only be one name for my baby!”
