Posted on 04/24/2015 12:23:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Tennessee woman who was pregnant when a horrific car crash left her in a coma woke up Wednesday to find out she had already given birth to a baby boy.
Sharista Giles’ family is celebrating two miracles after the 20-year-old mom opened her eyes to a photograph of her newborn child, they said.
“Sharista has her eyes open n blinking n squeezing our fingers when we ask her to,” the family wrote on a Facebook page they launched to document her recovery. “Praise the Lord! She was following her daddy’s voice.”
The blonde beauty was four months pregnant when a car accident in December left her clinging to life, her family said.
“The doctors were telling us there was nothing else they could do,” her aunt Beverly Giles, 49, told ABC News. “They already gave up hope. We never gave up. She’s fought this hard.”
Her loved ones used a Facebook page to chronicle Sharista’s medical process, including the premature birth of her son on Jan. 24.
The infant, who is being called “Baby L” until his mom is able to give him a proper name, weighed only 1 pound when he was welcomed into the world a month after the accident.
But now he’s healthy, weighing 6 pounds and 4 ounces, and proving he’s as strong as his mother — who hasn’t spoken yet but has managed to stay awake.
Sharista’s father held up a picture of “Baby L” when she woke up, and she never took her eyes off the image, her aunt told ABC News.
“When he turned around to put it back on the bulletin board, she turned her neck, her whole head trying to follow and find the picture again,” Beverly Giles said.
She is very cute!
not guilty in all jurisdictions
If the nurse had turned on the TV to a press conference held by Obama, maybe she would’ve got up and turned the TV off.
You mean she was four months pregnant and she didn’t have to have an abortion? How are the “pro choice” group going to explain that?
Praise God. Hopefully she’ll make a full recovery so that she can care for her baby and , hopefully, get married.
Possible bride ping! (-:
The baby has a name: Leighton Isiah Giles
They took the child home a week ago.
I love her.
“Tenn. Woman Wakes Up From Coma, Finds Out She Gave Birth to Son”
Well that’s a lot better than “Tenn. Woman Wakes Up From Coma, Finds Out She is Pregnant”
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