(BBC) – When 13-year-old Freya Harry and her mum Rachel cuddle up on the sofa, what’s immediately striking is how much they giggle and have fun together. The bond between the mother and daughter from Wrexham is strong, but follows them having had one of the most difficult starts imaginable.
Rachel suffered a heart attack and hypoxic brain injury, which meant her brain was starved of oxygen, during childbirth in July 2012. Rachel was left in a coma, and then unable to walk, talk or sit up. It meant that Rachel, then 30, was in hospital for the first 11 months of Freya’s life.
Family were told by some medical staff that she would never get any better but Rachel’s mother, Karan, said she always thought there was “something there” and believes that Freya was the key and the “driving force” for her improving. CONTINUE