MY COMA Ebony: ‘I went to sleep headache and woke up
STUDENT Ebony Stevenson woke from a coma to find she had become a mum.
The 18-year-old had no idea she was even pregnant when she went to bed with a splitting headache four days earlier.
After falling ill, Ebony suffered a series of seizures and was rushed to hospital where doctors put her into a coma.
By the time she came round on, she had given birth to little Elodie.
The college student never developed a baby bump, had no morning sickness and never missed a period.
Ebony said: “Waking up from a coma to be told I had been pregnant and had given birth to a baby girl was overwhelming to say the least.
“Meeting my baby was so surreal. It felt like an out-of-body experience.
“I didn’t think I even wanted kids – at least not for another 10 years – and I never expected to be a young mum. I worried I wouldn’t bond with my daughter because I had no time to get my head around her arrival.
But I think she’s amazing. It’s an absolute miracle. I wouldn’t change Elodie for the world.”
Doctors discovered Ebony has a rare condition which gave her two uteruses – one positioned towards her back where baby Elodie developed unnoticed.
The condition – uterus didelphys – is thought to affect only around one in 3,000 women.
In Ebony’s case, just one of them had a fallopian tube to carry an egg.
Ebony, from Oldham, added: “The doctors said Elodie was a miracle baby as women with my condition often struggle to conceive or carry to full term.”
She began feeling ill on December 2 last