Mother-Of-Three Suffers Brain Damage After Dealing With Three Strokes During Last Pregnancy

A mother-of-three has been diagnosed with brain damage after she suffered from three strokes during her third pregnancy. Identified as 30-year-old Julie Foster, the mother suffered a stroke when she was expecting her third baby, Oliver, in 2013.

Foster was supposed to have her fourth child but she suffered a stroke once again. She was pregnant with their fourth baby in 2015 but she experienced a stroke in the middle of her fourth pregnancy so they had to terminate it.

Daily Mirror reported that at the time, Foster realized she had a stroke in March of 2013, she called an ambulance and she was taken to a hospital. She said that they initially thought that she had a bad case of a migraine or a trapped nerve but the CT scan came back and showed that she had a stroke, as well as older episodes of the condition.

Foster experienced her first stroke when she had her daughter, Grace. It was the time when she went temporarily blind in one eye.

Foster suffered her second stroke in just two years and that was with her third pregnancy. She was not able to feel her foot. Her third stroke, on the other hand, was with her supposedly fourth child and during that time, she could not use her right arm and her memory and hearing were affected.

Daily Mail also reported that the mother-of-three underwent thrombolysis, which used a clot-busting drug to return the blood supply to a person's brain. In May of last year, she was able to recover. However, a month after, she was taken to a hospital due to a medical episode but there were no signs of a stroke or a transient ischaemic attack so she was sent home. After a month, she had her stroke and it wiped out 35 percent of the left side of her brain.

Foster did not walk until Christmas last year but was determined to get better for her family. It is believed that Foster suffered from Antiphospholipid syndrome, which is an immune system disorder that causes an increased risk of blood clots.