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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Rosaleen Fenton

‘I died for eight minutes while giving birth after suffering horrendous reaction to epidural’

A mum nearly died giving birth after suffering a rare reaction to her epidural which stopped her heart and left her in an induced coma.

Chloe Holbrook, 22, collapsed and died for eight minutes after doctors injected just a small amount of the drug into her system.

Her partner Reece, 24, looked on in horror as she fell unconscious and was whisked away for an emergency C-section to deliver their son, called Hugo.

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