I died during childbirth doctors performed a postmortem C-section before bringing me back to life

What should have been one of the happiest moments of a couple’s lives quickly turned into an unimaginable medical nightmare.Nicole and Anthony were thrilled to be welcoming their third baby when Nicole began documenting the moment for her unborn child.

“Hey baby number three.We’re in the hospital,” said Nicole in a video she was recording.

“Can’t wait to see you.”Not long after, Nicole began to feel nauseous and hot, she recalls in an exclusive clip from tonight’s new episode of TLC reality medical series “ER: Caught On Camera,” airing at 9 pm.“I felt an overwhelming sense of doom just come over my body,” she said.“I remember saying I can’t breathe.

I can’t breathe.And, and that was the last thing I remember.”Just 10 minutes after recording the video, Nicole suddenly and mysteriously flatlined while in labor on the delivery table and was quickly pronounced her dead.Anthony recalled a nurse immediately beginning chest compressions.“And I just said, ‘What the hell just happened to my wife,'” he said.

“That’s when they said, ‘Your wife has coded.She’s technically expired.'”Determined to save their baby, doctors rushed Nicole to the operating room and performed a postmortem C-section.

Anthony was left frozen in the delivery room, petrified at the possibility of becoming a single dad — a thought that had never crossed his mind before.But doctors weren’t just fighting to save the baby.They were also working to bring Nicole back to life.

Seven minutes into the code blue — the most critical hospital emergency indicating that a patient is in cardiac or respiratory arrest — Nicole’s pulse returned.But her fight was far from over.Nicole had suffered a massive hemorrhage.

Dr.Erin Nance, a board-certified surgeon, explained that severe bleeding can occur when the uterus fails to contract after childbirth, especially following a cesarean section, allowing blood loss to continue.To stop the bleeding and save her l...