Baby born to swine flu coma mother

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Sam Wright looks on as his wife Meeya cradles 18-day-old Jada — their daughter born while she was in a coma suffering from swine flu.

Doctors in Australia performed an emergency Caesarean section to save the mother and baby on 2 July.

Mrs Wright, 25, had been put in a coma to try to relieve pressure on her lungs caused by complications after she fell ill. It was six days later when she came round that she found out she had given birth to Jada two months early.

Speaking from her hospital bed in Melbourne, she said: "It is still sinking in that I could have died, and everyone is telling me there were times when they thought I was not going to make it."

Jada was placed in isolation until tests revealed swine flu had not been passed on to her. She is now in Box Hill Hospital's special care nursery.

Mrs Wright is out of intensive care and recovering from a punctured lung. She and her husband have two other children, Sienna, three, and one-year-old Levi. Mr Wright said of the latest addition to their family: "I have never cried so much in my life."