She was three weeks away from her due date when the chest pains started. And when Sara Palmer stood up and was sick she and husband Joe knew something was seriously wrong.
Paramedics rushed the 31-year-old from Ruthin, Wales, to hospital with suspected internal bleeding and dangerously low blood pressure. Once there doctors struggled to find her baby's heart beat.
An emergency caesarean followed and premature Isabella, weighing just 5lb 10oz., was put in the special care baby unit. But Mrs Palmer continued to haemorrhage blood.
Eventually doctors found a tumour on Mrs Palmer's liver and 19 medics spent the next eight hours trying to save her life pumping a massive 56 units (around 46 pints) of blood into her to keep her alive. More Read
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