On A Positive Note: Pregnant Woman Survives Aneurysm after carrying for 19 weeks.

<div class="block">New mom Katie Stewart shares her experience of surviving an aneurism while pregnant. She went through the traumatic experience at 19 weeks and was saved with immediate surgery.</div>

On a Positive Note

On A Positive Note: Woman Survives Aneurysm While Pregnant

I just completely blacked out. I passed out on the couch in November, Katie Stewart who was 19 weeks pregnant says she was having a great time with her oldest son. When, when I woke up, I was blind, I was numb on half of my body. I couldn't talk. Um I was in like a cold sweat Stewart was rushed to Saint Vincent's Medical Center. She immediately went into surgery for an aneurysm in her spleen that ruptured. So they ended up um, interventional radiology, ended up putting a coil in to stop bleeding. In order to remove the aneurysm, we remove this part of the blood vessel as well as the tail of the pancreas and the spleen which it supplies doctor Charles Cha with Hartford health care. Performed the surgery. This is the most common type of aneurysm to rupture during pregnancy. As all tissue gets softer and expands during pregnancy. These aneurysms can grow quite large. Stewart says she was very lucky and so was her baby. You know, the mortality rate. Unfortunately, when it comes to clinic, aneurysms during pregnancy is like 95%. So the fact that I live through the bleed with the aneurysm um is nothing short of a miracle because really neither of us really should be here on March 15th. Peter David was born. You know, he's a little over 19 inches long, £6.15 ounces. So he is perfect. Three months later, Peter's older brother who was four when his mother was rushed to the hospital is enjoying his new buddy. He loves being a big brother and he, he's so sweet with him and he's so gentle with him and it's, it's so so sweet to see the two of them together.