New mum urging pregnant women to get vaccinated after waking from three-week coma

Erem Ali, 29, was 31 weeks pregnant when she admitted herself to Royal Surrey County hospital, Guilford struggling to breathe and unable to feel her baby moving and thought she had coronavirus.

Doctors quickly realised she did have covid-19 and her condition worsened so much that she needed to be put into an induced coma and her baby needed to be born five weeks early.

Baby Zorayz Ali, now eight months old, was delivered via an emergency c-section on 2nd February 2021 weighing 4lbs and 2oz just before Erem was put in the coma.

She has no memory of the C-section and didn't meet the baby when he was born.

Erem, a stay-at-home mum, Surrey, said: “When I came round and they told me I had the baby I was so confused.

“I didn’t have any memory of the c-section or giving birth. It was horrific.

“I was still struggling to breathe, and I wasn’t allowed to see my baby.

“Seeing him for the first time after over a month was so relieving, but I feel sad that I missed out on the first part of his life.

“I was so determined to recover for him and my other children.

"They kept me going."