Mom lost twins and needed an organ transplant because of a rare disease

Louise Prashad has two scars on her stomach – a brutal reminder of her survival and gift of life, but also of the devastation she suffered.

She woke up after a long three-week coma and discovered that, but she had lost her twin babies and had to have a liver transplant to save her life.

A rare condition called acute pregnancy liver left him with a scar whose organ was removed and a caesarean section scar when his twins Mia and Leo were stillborn at 37 weeks.

Louise, 25, thought she would never have another child – and survived only through a liver transplant offered by a woman in her 50s.

The doctors discovered it eight hours after Louise became number one in the European organ registry.

Following the death of her twins, Louise was deeply anxious and virtually gave up hope of becoming a mother again.

Her reluctance was due to a one in four chance that the condition of "Acute Hepatic Fever" recurs during another pregnancy.

But after taking the courageous decision to try to have another baby with her husband Max, now 30, she became pregnant with Ava after a year of waiting.

Louise was not convinced that little Ava, who is now, was born alive until she was welcomed into the world on March 20, 2018.

She said, "I never thought I would have another child. When I decided to try again, I had to wait over a year because the medications I was taking were really harmful.

"We started to try and it took a year and a half. I finally got pregnant with Ava, but it was the most nerve-racking pregnancy. I really had a hard time enjoying it.

'When you're pregnant, the slightest thing can get your nerves moving, but I'm constantly on the alert.

"I did not think she was going to live here until I gave birth. I was not allowed to have a natural birth, I had to have a planned cesarean to make sure she was here safely.

"The minute I saw her and heard her crying, I thought," She's really here and I can stop doubting myself. "

"It's the image of Mia and Leo spitting, the similarities are so strange: the black hair, the eyes of the same color, the mauve skin, the pretty nose button."

After the birth of Ava, Louise first thought of her son and daughter and the woman who had donated this organ.

She wrote a letter to the donor's family telling them where their mother's organ had gone and what Louise had done thanks to the woman in her fifties.

Louise became pregnant with her twins Mia and Leo in August 2015, at the age of 21, while she was a law graduate and had been with her boyfriend Max only for six months .

She had a difficult pregnancy and began to experience extreme fatigue, illness and abdominal pain in the months leading up to her delivery.

Louise was taken to the hospital after vomiting two liters of blood before falling into unconsciousness as a result of complications related to her pregnancy.

Doctors later discovered that Louise had been struck by the potentially fatal 'pregnancy fat liver', which affected one in 10,000 women. Mia and Leo were 'asleep'.

Louise underwent a liver transplant while she was unconscious and her chances of survival were very slim.

After she awoke, she could not remember the months that had preceded her illness because of the delirium.

During her convalescence at the hospital, Lousie needed to be informed of the terrible news that her twins had died.

Louise, who works for the City Council of York, said, "Mom came in and announced the news that Mia and Leo were gone. I shouted the place.

"That's when everything seemed real and my brain came to the idea that they were no longer there.

"It was the most traumatic experience of my life. I've somehow found that inner strength that I needed to improve to make sure they had the best start possible. They deserved more than the hand they had been given.

"It was all for them and trying to celebrate the little life they had. I was numb.

Louise had to learn to walk and write again, but once she was released from intensive care, she managed to visit the chapel of rest and spend time with Mia and Leo before the funeral.

Louise and her husband Max, of Holgate, York, have since raised £ 800 for a memorial bench at Rowntree Park in honor of Mia and Leo and other families who have experienced loss of life. a child.

Friends and family organize York 10K in memory of Mia, Leo and organ donors. All funds raised will be donated to local charities donating organs.

She said, "These past years have been a whirlwind of emotions and grief, which never really stops.

"I wanted something in our hometown that we could go to Ava on special occasions, when we needed time to think about them or to have a difficult day.

"Somewhere we could go is a memorial and not a grave.

"I can not even begin to explain how perfect my children were, I always think of them every day. The pain never disappears. "

Louise is still following consultations and physiotherapy to improve her mobility, but she is determined to make her children proud by educating her clients about organ donation and liver disease during pregnancy.

She said, "Awareness of the condition of the liver during pregnancy is very discreet. More needs to be done to educate the general public.

"Itchy skin, abdominal pain, yellowing of the skin, excessive thirst, fatigue, bleeding gums are all symptoms.

"I think if you're ready to receive an organ, then you should be ready to donate.

"I was on the organ donor registry before, but I did not think about it for a moment. It was just something I checked in my driving app, but it's more than that. You save someone's child, someone's mother, love someone's life.

"It was no fault of mine that I found myself in this situation and if there was no donor available, I would not be there and my husband would have lost three people that day."

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