What should have been one of the happiest moments of a couple\u2019s lives quickly turned into an unimaginable medical nightmare. <\/p>\n
Nicole and Anthony were thrilled to be welcoming their third baby when Nicole began documenting the moment for her unborn child. <\/p>\n
\u201cHey baby number three. We\u2019re in the hospital,\u201d said Nicole in a video she was recording. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to see you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicole filmed a video for her unborn child just minutes before her heart stopped. TLC<\/p>\n
Not long after, Nicole began to feel nauseous and hot, she recalls in an exclusive clip from tonight\u2019s new episode of TLC reality medical series \u201cER: Caught On Camera<\/a>,\u201d airing at 9 pm.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt an overwhelming sense of doom just come over my body,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember saying I can\u2019t breathe. I can\u2019t breathe. And, and that was the last thing I remember.\u201d<\/p>\n Just 10 minutes after recording the video, Nicole suddenly and mysteriously flatlined while in labor on the delivery table and was quickly\u00a0pronounced her dead.<\/p>\n Anthony recalled a nurse immediately beginning chest compressions.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I just said, \u2018What the hell just happened to my wife,’\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s when they said, \u2018Your wife has coded. She\u2019s technically expired.’\u201d<\/p>\n Determined to save their baby, doctors rushed Nicole to the operating room and performed a postmortem C-section. Anthony was left frozen in the delivery room, petrified at the possibility of becoming a single dad \u2014 a thought that had never crossed his mind before.<\/p>\n But doctors weren\u2019t just fighting to save the baby. They were also working to bring Nicole back to life. <\/p>\n Seven minutes into the code blue \u2014 the most critical hospital emergency indicating that a patient is in cardiac or respiratory arrest \u2014 Nicole\u2019s pulse returned.<\/p>\n Nicole and husband Anthony were preparing to welcome their third child when a routine delivery suddenly became a fight for Nicole\u2019s life. TLC<\/p>\n But her fight was far from over. <\/p>\n Nicole had suffered a massive hemorrhage. Dr. Erin Nance, a board-certified surgeon, explained that severe bleeding can occur when the uterus fails to contract after childbirth, especially following a cesarean section, allowing blood loss to continue.<\/p>\n To stop the bleeding and save her life, doctors removed Nicole\u2019s uterus.<\/p>\n \u201cThe main place that\u00a0Nicole\u00a0was bleeding out into was into her uterus,\u201d said Dr. J Mack Slaughter, an emergency physician. \u201cSo you take that out and you were able to cauterize all the other blood vessels in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n Nicole was discharged from the hospital a week following her near-death delivery.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has made me change how I love and how I forgive and how I want this new life that I was given back,\u201d said Nicole.<\/p>\n Doctors later determined that Nicole\u2019s cardiac arrest was caused by an amniotic fluid embolism<\/a>, a rare and potentially fatal childbirth complication<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cIt has made me change how I love and how I forgive and how I want this new life that I was given back,\u201d said Nicole on the TLC reality medical series \u201cER: Caught On Camera.\u201d TLC<\/p>\n The condition occurs when amniotic fluid or fetal material enters the mother\u2019s blood stream and triggers a catastrophic reaction. It can lead to heart and lung failure, excessive bleeding, cardiac arrest, brain damage and death.<\/p>\n