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Mum and unborn baby could die any moment after old c-section scar re-opens


This mum’s c-section scar from when she had twins is opening inside her and threatening her life and unborn baby (Picture: SWNS)

A mother fears she and her baby could lose their life at any moment after a scar from a previous birth opened up inside her.

Anne McNally, 36, was excited to discover that, despite being on the pill, she was pregnant with her fifth child in February. But a couple of months later she started to bleed.

Doctors told the mum that while her unborn daughter was healthy, there was an unusual amount of fluid in her stomach. They later discovered that an internal scar from the emergency caesarean section delivery of her twins James and Millie, four years earlier, had started to re-open.

The gap is now three inches long and if it keeps growing could kill both Anne and her baby, leaving the twins and her other two children Jack, 18, and Macey, 10, without a mother.

Anne, from Norris Green, Liverpool, said: ‘Hearing that my scar was opening up, I immediately started crying. It was really scary.

‘I was terrified because the doctors said it could be life-threatening to me and my baby. It was very overwhelming, especially as I was on my own at the appointment as nobody could come with me because of Covid-19.

Anne is having to be careful as to not open up her scar (Picture: SWNS)

‘There is a chance the scar could open up fully, resulting in me dying or my baby dying or even both of us but I don’t even want to think about that.

‘Now, I’m just taking every day as it comes and trying not to move around too much which is extremely hard with four kids including twin toddlers!’

Now, Anne is trying to move as little as possible, but has found it difficult as she has to go to monthly appointments to monitor the scar on her own because of the pandemic.

The baby could move to the stomach which would kill them both (Picture: SWNS)

She said: ‘I’m still scared now, especially when I get pain.

‘The doctors have said as long as the scar doesn’t fully open up, they will take me as far as possible and hopefully everything will go ok.

‘I won’t be able to go to full term so I’ll be getting booked in for an early c-section.

‘We could still both die and there’s a chance I could bleed too much as my scar tissues are so bad that I could basically bleed to death.

Anne has four other children whom she had via c-section (Picture: SWNS)

‘I am trying to stay positive because thinking about it all the time was making me feel sick and that wasn’t good for the baby or for me, it was just making it worse.

‘The pandemic has made it all ten times worse as I have to do it all on my own without the baby’s dad there to support me.

‘I just want the best for my baby and I have to just take every day as it comes – I’m hoping for the best and doing all I can to look after us both.’

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