A mother claims she almost died from a stroke just weeks after giving birth because of an infection contracted during pregnancy. Katie Shirley, 21, from Manchester, says she was 'poisoned' by her own placenta after it became infected with harmful bacteria. Doctors have told her she's lucky to be alive after collapsing in her bathroom seven weeks after giving birth to daughter Olivia, now one. About about three in five people who have a subarachnoid haemorrhage die within two weeks, according to the NHS. 'I had a normal pregnancy apart from having anaemia but when I got to 36 weeks I started bleeding heavily.

Source: Daily Mail December 11, 2019 12:32 UTC