Sharista Giles UPDATE - A 20-year-old mother has given birth to her baby boy in her sleep. What's interesting is that doctors think she would permanently be in slumber as she was on a coma for more than four months.
Giles was reportedly four months pregnant when she got into a car accident on Dec. 6, in Nashville. Because of the tragic incident the mom-to-be was unconscious for nearly five months, Sydney Morning Herald has learned.
Her doctors already informed her family that she only had a 10 percent chance to regain her consciousness from deep coma, but an update on Sharista Giles' condition surprised medical professionals and her family alike.
Giles woke up on Wednesday - the first time since the accident - only to learn that she had prematurely given birth to her baby boy in January.
"The doctors were telling us there was nothing else they could do," Beverly Giles, 49, told ABC News. They already gave up hope. We never gave up. She's fought this hard."
Due to the tragic incident and given Sharista's condition following it, doctors made the bold move to deliver the baby while the mother was still in her deep sleep.
The baby, who hasn't been named yet, was born weighing only less than two pounds. However, "Baby L," as what his family is calling him, has grown healthily and now weighs 6 pounds and 4 ounces.
"He showed her a picture of her baby, and she followed the picture," Beverly said on what the father of the baby did when Sharista woke up from coma, according to Daily Mail.
Beverly added, "When he turned around to put it back on the bulletin board, she turned her neck, her whole head trying to follow and find the picture again."
An update on Sharista Giles' prognosis is still too early to tell, but her family and friends ate very happy to learn that she is now awake and that her baby boy is ready to leave the neonatal intensive care unit of the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
