Croydon (UK) mother Cheryl Crisp gave birth week after 'dying' from heart attack

A pregnant woman who "died" several times on the operating table after suffering a severe heart attack miraculously gave birth a week later. Incredibly both 35-year-old Cheryl Crisp and her three-month premature baby son Albie, who weighed just 2lb 7oz (1.2g), survived. It was described by a heart specialist as one of a kind. Specialist consultant cardiologist Dr Kevin Beatt at Mayday Hospital in Croydon said the pair were "incredibly lucky" and said he could not find another case in which both mother and baby lived. The Bromley Council cook's heart stopped beating as surgeons at Mayday worked to remove a blood clot which caused the heart attack. She was kept unconscious for almost a week as doctors struggled to keep her and the baby alive. At one point during the family's eight-day ordeal, the baby's father, sales manager Terry Kemp, 35, was asked by surgeons to choose which of the two should be saved - Croydon Guardian