Woman details horror of losing her baby and limbs during pregnancy

A Florida woman who lost her baby and her limbs during pregnancy says she is on the path to recovery following the nightmare ordeal.

Kayleigh Ferguson-Walker, 31, opened up about her pregnancy ending in tragedy when she returned to services Saturday at her Plantation church, the Sun Sentinel reported.

“Today I’m just amazed to be here, to be able to talk, to see, to praise God,” Ferguson-Walker told the congregation.

The mom was six months pregnant with her second child in March when she began to develop flu-like symptoms.

She was sent to the hospital where her health continued to dramatically decline. With her kidneys failing, her blood pressure dipped and her breathing was labored, according to the Sun Sentinel.

In the emergency room, experts determined that she had contracted sepsis from an infection due to pregnancy complications — threatening both her life and the baby’s.

Doctors were unable to find the baby’s heartbeat and induced Ferguson-Walker’s labor. She gave birth to a stillborn baby.

But her ordeal wasn’t over.

The infection caused her to go into septic shock, and she was put into a medically-induced coma. While unconscious, she developed gangrene, a condition in which body tissue dies.

She woke up two weeks later to discover she was losing her limbs.

“My hands and feet were pitch black, dead,” Ferguson-Walker said, according to the Sun-Sentinel. “But I was not alarmed. I just looked at them. These were my hands, my feet, and I can’t move them at all. It was not a good sight.”

She was forced to undergo amputation on her arms and legs.

“This was a hard state to be in,” she said. “But I did not break out crying. Of course I asked, ‘Why me, how me? Why me, God? How am I going to do this? I have a young child.’”

Ferguson-Walker said that she has found strength in her 3-year-old child as she works to recover.

“I would like to be able to get up and get things for her,” she said.

Her family has started a GoFundMe raising more than $48,000 to help with medical expenses.