A MUM who 'died twice' during a traumatic birth claims to remember the moment doctors tried to restart her heart. Keeley Wilson, 36, recalls the ECG monitor flatlining and hearing the long beep while the surgeon was cutting into her to perform a C-section . Her next memory is seeing the face of the anaesthetist who was performing chest compressions - before her heart stopped again.
She came round a second time to hear newborn Sophia crying - but had suffered broken ribs during the attempt to restart her heart. Despite tests, doctors were never able to say precisely why she had two cardiac arrests . But the ordeal left her with PTSD, anxiety , flashbacks and nightmares.
Keeley, from Greater Manchester, who works as a travel consultant and owns a business decorating Christmas trees, said: "I think it's fair to say I actually died twice. "My last memory was feeling so sick, then seeing the line go flat, hearing that long beep, and everyone hitting buttons. "Then I remember the anaesthetist standing over me, saying my name over and over.
"I saw her face in my sleep for about six months because I had nightmares about this." Sophia, now three, was born weighing 7lb 12oz at 10:18 am on May 18, 2021, after an uncomplicated pregnancy. Keeley had an elective c-section because she'd had an emergency c-section when her first daughter, Mya, now 14, was breached.
As the surgeon was cutting her tummy open, she felt an overwhelming urge to be sick. A near death experience (NDE) is classified.