British Woman Wakes Up After Three-Month Coma To Find Out That She’s Pregnant

A British woman woke up from a three-month coma only to be surprised that she was 11 weeks pregnant.

Gemma Holmes, 33, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, shared her story about how she was put into a coma after getting into a car crash as she was driving to work back in 2013. At the time, she didn’t know that she was expecting.

When she came to three months later, her memory was completely wiped from the three previous months, and she no longer knew who the father of her child was. Her mother and family were waiting on her to wake up while she was taken care of at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol; doctors told Holmes’ mother that her daughter was pregnant.

“I woke up to be told, ‘You’re in the hospital, you’ve had a really bad accident, you’ve got brain damage, a punctured lung, you’ve broken too many bones and you’ll never walk again,’” she said on the “Real Fix” podcast, The New York Post reports.

“To wake up to be told you’ve just been through all of this, died and everything but you’re still pregnant … it’s like, ‘Oh my God, how does that happen?’” Holmes said. “I was like ‘What?’ because I woke up to a dream of giving birth to a little boy … I even question myself today: ‘How did that happen?’ I died twice, but he’s still alive inside of me — I don’t get it,” she continued.

She said without a doubt that she wanted to keep the child. “They said to me, ‘You’ve got a week to decide if you want to keep the baby because we can’t do anything after 12 weeks.’ I was like, ‘No way, of course, I’m going to keep him. Are you joking?’” She added: “I was excited. I couldn’t wait to meet him. He kicked me loads letting me know he was in there.”

Doctors told her she’d never be able to walk again, so she used a wheelchair for several months. She gave birth to a healthy baby boy in 2013, and as she was teaching him to learn to walk, she regained her ability to walk as well. “The doctors said I hadn’t got much chance of making it, but I pulled through, and I proved all those doctors wrong. My mum’s always brought [me] up to think if you think negative, negative is going to happen. If you think positive, positive will happen,” Holmes said.