US mom gives birth to baby while in a coma

New Delhi: A 19-year-old US woman Abigail Unruh who resides in Kansas has given birth to a healthy baby boy while sleeping, after doctors put her in a medically-induced coma to fight a nasty strain of the flu. Abigail Unruh was stricken with the flu while she was seven months pregnant and had not been vaccinated. What she believed to be a common cold turned out to be a powerful flu that turned into pneumonia.On New Year's Eve Unruh collapsed and her grandmother Kathryn Unruh rushed her to Overland Park Regional Medical Center where she was quickly put on a ventilator since she couldn't breath on her own. Doctors then diagnosed Unruh with a particularly violent strain of the H1N1 virus. They decided to put Unruh in a medically-induced coma to save both mother and baby from death. Two days after her hospital admittance, Unruh went into labour pain and had a natural delivery,which amazed doctors and Unruh's grandmother, Katherine.The surprising fact was Unruh, who was still in a coma when little baby was born.According to a report published in Daily Mail the delivery was an easy process, but the new mother wasn't able to see her son for at least another two weeks due to her state. In an interview to a local news channel, Dr James Kaplin, critical care specialist of Overland hospital said that this was a different case as Abigail was asleep during the time of delivery. She delivered the baby without any trouble and neither did she wake up.Abigail said that she should not have got the flu. She was sad that she missed being with the baby after the first two weeks of delivery. She stated that she will take her flu shots in time from now onwards.