Pregnant mother has heart surgery and delivers child at the same time

You can DO that?!?

Pregnant Mother Has Heart Surgery And Delivers Child At Same Time

Via DailyMail

A mother whose aorta burst when she was eight months pregnant ended up having life-saving surgery during which her baby was also delivered.

Edita Tracey, 35, suffered a foot-long rupture in the main blood vessel taking blood from her heart to the rest of her body.

Miraculously, she is now back at home with her daughter and is expected to make a full recovery.

Mrs Tracey, from Philadelphia, was 36 weeks pregnant and in the hairdressers when she started suffering pain back pain, Fox 29 reports.

She says the pain was not severe – it was more of a pressing pain.

She phoned her husband, Ken, who was on a business trip but said he would fly home immediately.

But when the pain spread to her chest, she called an ambulance.

She told Fox 29: ‘The last thing I remember is emergency people coming, and that’s it. I don’t remember anything else.’

Mrs Tracey was rushed to hospital where tests revealed her aorta – the largest blood vessel in the human body – had ruptured and she did not have long to live.

Medics immediately sent Mrs Tracey’s scans to a cardiologist and organised for her to be airlifted to another hospital.

When she arrived she was rushed into emergency surgery and within 30 seconds of her being put to sleep, her baby had been delivered.

Miraculously, Arabella was born completely healthy and weighing 6lbs 12oz.

However, her mother remained in surgery for nearly nine hours as surgeons fought to repair the foot-long tear in her aorta.

That isht cray.

Image via FOX29