01/04/2025
SIP 💕👑
Morgan Hughes, 23, always wanted to become a mother and was overjoyed when she delivered a boy and a girl Dec. 19, her family said. Hughes recovered well after childbirth and was discharged from the hospital days later.
But around a week after she gave birth, Hughes started feeling off. She vomited and fainted, and thought she may have had a seizure.
She returned to the hospital, where doctors discovered fluid around her heart. They diagnosed her with postpartum cardiomyopathy, a rare form of heart failure that happens when the heart muscle weakens toward the end of pregnancy or up to about five months following delivery.
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