Mom Didn't Wake Up After A C-Section, The Doctors Felt All Hope Was Lost...

Rylan Cawley is too young to understand the miracle that she helped bring about.

In fact, she’s still in diapers. But those who do understand can’t help but be amazed at how a helpless infant managed to save the life of her dangerously ill mother.

#1 Rylan Cawley

Rylan Cawley is too young to understand the miracle that she helped bring about. In fact, she's still in diapers. But those who do understand can't help but be amazed at how a helpless infant managed to save the life of her dangerously ill mother.

#2 Shelly Doesn't Remember Much

Shelly Cawley doesn't remember much about Rylan's birth, but she does remember being frightened."I clearly remember laying on the stretcher to take me back to the operating room and I was crying. I was telling the doctors that I was scared that I wasn't going to wake up from my surgery. Which is kind of eerie to look back on because I was right," Shelly told WCNC News.

#3 Blood Clot

While Shelly was under anesthesia for an emergency c-section, a blood clot broke loose in one of Shelly's legs, sending the new mother into a coma. After a week, the medical staff began to worry that Shelly would never wake up again. Many believed that Shelly had given up and wouldn't last much longer. Then, the nursing staff had an idea.

#4 The Connection Of Love

They lay baby Rylan on top of her mother. But then they ran into another problem. "Rylan went right to sleep," Rylan's father, Jeremy, told WCNC. "It's not what we needed. We needed Ryland to cry. That's what the nurses were saying. We were poking, and tickling to get Ryland to make some noises, but she was so happy that wasn't happening right away. Once she did when she started crying out- I think it really got inside Shelly and woke her up."

#5 Baby Rylan Saved Her Mom

Somehow, Rylan's cries reached out to her mother and woke her from the coma. It was everything the medical team had hoped for. "I'm 100% a believer in miracles," said an emotional nurse Manus. Now completely recovered and the proud mother of a sweet, bubbly little girl, Shelly believes in miracles as well. And she knows that there was something calling out to her in Rylan's cries that brought her back to life.

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