{"id":305994,"date":"2024-01-30T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=305994"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:58:08","slug":"preborn-baby-saves-mom-life-threatening-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preborn-baby-saves-mom-life-threatening-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Preborn baby miraculously saves mom’s life during life-threatening health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doctors thought she was having a heart attack \u2014 but for this pregnant mom, her chest pain was a much more serious complication. And amazingly, her preborn baby saved her life.<\/p>\n

Amanda Banic was 35 weeks pregnant when she began having severe chest pains<\/a>. It was her first baby, and she and her husband rushed to the emergency room. At first, it was brushed off as indigestion and anxiety, and Banic was sent home \u2014 but the pain got worse, even causing her vision to become blurry.<\/p>\n

“I just felt in that moment that this was it. I think I’m dying,” she told Good Morning America. “I didn’t know how else to explain it. I had just never felt anything like it.”<\/p>\n

It was so intense, she told TODAY<\/a> that it was like “a knife shredding through me.” Her husband insisted she go back to the hospital, but having already been dismissed by staff once, she was reluctant to go again; he, however, refused to let her stay home, which likely helped save her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m not going to go to the hospital because they\u2019re just going to send me away with anxiety,\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cI felt like at that point I was going to be made a mockery of,” she said. “They\u2019ve already told us that had we not went back to the hospital, I was within hours of passing. It was overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n