I almost died after giving birth when a flesh-eating bug developed in my C-section incision

A caller mom has revealed she almost died aft giving commencement erstwhile she developed a flesh-eating bug successful her C-section incision.

Amber DeWitt, 31, battled necrotizing fasciitis and was put into a coma aft nan presence of her now one-year-old son, Weston, successful September 2023.

The fierce condition, which eats distant astatine patient tissue, tin beryllium fatal and saw a 'softball-sized' chunk of Amber's tummy removed.

The mom-of-one and business manager, from Dallas, had a 'healthy, normal pregnancy' and had planned to person a h2o birth, but she was rushed into an emergency C-section aft her babe became stuck successful nan breach position.

Weston arrived astatine September 30, 2023, astatine 9.25am weighing 6lbs 11oz. 

They were discharged 2 days, but later that week Amber grew concerned erstwhile her incision continued hurting.

It became progressively painful, pinch her yet processing a precocious temperature.

She said: 'I couldn't spell to nan toilet, truthful they knew my organs were shutting down.' 

When she visited astatine a section clinic, she said doctors told her it was a mild bacterial infection and sent her location pinch antibiotics. 

She said: 'They suggested I put a sanitary towel complete nan coiled to thief pinch nan moisture.

'In hindsight, I consciousness for illustration that mightiness person made germs breed more.'

When nan symptom became unbearable, Amber returned to Dallas's Baylor Scott and White Hospital, wherever doctors discovered nan terrifying truth.

They rushed her successful for emergency exploratory surgery, wherever they discovered she had developed sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.

They suspected nan infection had developed successful nan coiled of her C-section incision.

Amber was put successful an induced coma for 3 days, and had 2 much operations while asleep.

'My surgeon warned maine it was a immense cognition and that's erstwhile I realized really superior it was. There was truthful overmuch insubstantial dying and turning black, they had to support cutting away,' she said.

'They had to extremity it spreading earlier it deed my captious organs. I don't retrieve thing during this time.'

She underwent emergency room to region nan dying tissue, leaving her pinch a three-inch heavy and astir two-inch unfastened wound.

The mom added: 'During nan 2nd operation, doctors told my family I wasn't going to survive.' 

Doctors warned her 32-year-old husband, Andrew, that she was 'unlikely to survive' but she defied nan odds, waking up 3 days later.

Amber said: 'Doctors didn't deliberation I'd make it done nan night. I had a newborn babe and my hubby was saying his goodbyes. 

'They had to trim distant pounds of tegument – it was nan aforesaid magnitude arsenic a softball. I'm truthful grateful to beryllium here, and to beryllium capable to watch my boy grow-up.'

She spent six days successful intensive attraction and different 8 days connected a ward earlier she was yet discharged.

Amber had a caregiver sojourn her respective times a week for nan adjacent six months to proceed changing her dressings.

She said: 'It was a very difficult time, I was a caller mom and couldn't moreover clasp my baby.

'They trim truthful overmuch tegument away, that it created a 2nd coiled because nan tegument was excessively tight to heal. I was fortunate to person specified astonishing support astir me.'

After 5 surgeries and 2 weeks later, Amber returned location and was connected nan roadworthy to recovery. 

She has since afloat recovered but been near pinch a ample scar down her abdomen aft nan traumatic incident.

She said: 'I didn't person wellness insurance, and nan costs of curen put maine disconnected seeking aesculapian thief sooner.

'I kept reasoning it would get amended and it didn't. I ended up getting Medicaid - which covered nan infirmary bills and backdated to nan C-section.

'I worked retired I racked up astir a cardinal dollars worthy of treatment. But your wellness is not worthy worrying astir getting a infirmary measure - I put disconnected going and it astir costs my life.

'I astir died and would ne'er person been present for my son. In that sense, I'm fortunate to beryllium here.'

Now, she is yet healed and is connected a ngo to impulse group to 'listen' to their bodies if thing doesn't look right.