Baby Suffers Stroke in the Womb, Surprises Doctors
A one-year-old girl who had a stroke in the womb that caused several life-threatening health conditions is experiencing small victories by talking, scooting and clapping.
Naomi Kretschmer suffers from epilepsy, cerebral palsy and is partially paralyzed on the right side of her body due to a brain hemorrhage that caused permanent damage to the parts of the brain that control language and reasoning.At 36 weeks pregnant, her mother Melanie, 28, had not felt Naomi kick in more than a day and went to a nearby hospital in Wisconsin where an ultrasound revealed the baby was in distress.
Within an hour the now-mother-of-two was under general anesthesia for an emergency c-section to deliver the baby who was seizing and needed to be resuscitated.
Nineteen months later, despite her conditions, Naomi is defying doctors expectations by reaching ‘inchstones’, as her mother put it to Daily Mail Online, such as speaking, scooting down stairs and even crawling on occasion.
Source: The Punch News
