Scotland:mother in fight for life after catching swine flu

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A new mother was said to be fighting for her life in hospital last night after being rushed straight from the maternity ward to intensive care with a serious case of swine flu.

Ashleigh Morrison, 24, reportedly fell ill last week, but still managed to give birth to a healthy baby girl delivered by Caesarean section on Saturday.

She is understood to have spent the last four days in a medically induced coma as doctors at Crosshouse Hospital, near Kilmarnock, believe she will have a better chance of beating the illness unconscious.

Relatives now face an anxious wait to see mother and baby healthy and reunited. But the disease ? which has already claimed the lives of two Scots this winter ? is not expected to retreat before Christmas.

A spokeswoman for NHS Ayrshire and Arran declined to comment on Ms Morrison?s condition last night as she had not given written permission.

Doctors have urged all patients eligible for flu vaccines to contact their GP surgeries as cases of the virus surge.

So far this winter there have been 26 confirmed cases of the illness in Scotland and two people have died.

The British Medical Association Scotland yesterday issued a plea to pensioners and people with long-term health problems such as diabetes and asthma to come forward for vaccination against the bug.


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Re: Scotland:mother in fight for life after catching swine flu

A swine flu positive mother, who had recently given birth to a beautiful baby girl, is struggling for her life in the intensive care unit of the Crosshouse Hospital. The woman in question is the 24-year old Ashleigh Morrison, who gave birth to her first child, hours after she was diagnosed with the dreaded virus.

In order to protect the child from getting infected by the virus, nurses had taken away the beautiful child seconds after she was conceived. Ashleigh was so desperate to see her daughter that as soon as she got out of the effect of the anesthetic, she looked for her child but could not find her.

Following the delivery, Ashley has been sent into an induced coma by doctors in order to help her body fight better against the illness. The swine flu has already resulted in the fatality of 10-people in the UK.

Ashleigh is still on a ventilator; with her hapless partner William staying at the hospital every day. Talking about her daughters' condition, Ashleigh's mother, Sandra said that all her family was hoping was that she could just come out of this situation.

Sandra further rues that it is shattering to know that her daughter has not been able to hold her daughter since she was born.

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