A Miracle in Italy: Woman Wakes from Yearlong Coma to Find She's a Mom

A remarkable event unfolded in an Italian hospital—a 37-year-old woman awoke from a yearlong coma to the life-changing news that she's a mother.

The woman, Cristina Rossi from Tuscany, was pregnant when she suffered a cardiac arrest last July, leading to her coma. Doctors managed to stabilize her condition and performed an early C-section to deliver her daughter, Caterina—a meeting Cristina experienced upon waking.

Cristina's husband, Gabriele Sozzi, shared that her first word upon awakening was "Mama."

"It felt as though I had given birth to her all over again," Cristina's mother expressed with excitement, as she sat by her daughter’s hospital bed and heard her say the cherished word "Mama" after a whole year. During a conversation with her husband and the doctors, Cristina discovered that she, too, was already a mother. The revelation was emotional for everyone present.

Doctors treating Cristina now describe her case as a medical miracle, and her story has captivated many across Italy.