Mr. Kate YouTuber Kate Albrecht Details Coma After Giving Birth
Kate Albrecht and Joey Zehr are opening up about a health scare that followed the birth of their second child.
The couple behind the Mr. Kate YouTube channel, who are also parents to son Moon, 6, are recounting the medical emergency that Kate endured after giving birth to daughter Mars on May 22.
After spending weeks mostly offline, Kate, 43, and Joey, 43, shared that while they are now parents of two healthy babies, the last eight weeks following their home birth in Hawaii have been a difficult journey. While the birth itself went smoothly—an especially happy moment as Kate was excited to experience natural birth following her c-section with Moon—everything changed two weeks later.
"I was so tired and so sore," Kate recalled to People in an interview published July 18. "I felt like, 'Wait, this is supposed to be easier. I'm supposed to recover from a natural childbirth easier than a surgery,' but I was bedridden."
And despite repeatedly getting the all-clear from the doctor, Kate knew something wasn't right, and her suspicions were confirmed after she went to a friend's house and started to fall ill.
"I was starting to just not be able to think clearly," she remembered. "She put me in bed, and that's actually where my memory stops."
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Kate's friend called Joey, and by the time he showed up, her condition had progressed: She was unconscious with blood coming out of her mouth.
"I immediately jump on the bed and yell at her, and she won't wake up," he shared. "Kate started having seizures in the room, which was terrible to watch."
As it so happened, a film crew was outside filming a movie, so Joey quickly found the on-set medic who let him know she likely had eclampsia, which according to Yale Medicine, is "a rare condition in which a pregnant or postpartum woman suddenly experiences seizures" that can arise "until 6 weeks after delivery."
After a seizure in bed and a seizure in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, she was intubated. Joey recalled, "At that point, she was then in a medical coma."
Several hours and medical tests later, Kate woke up the next morning and was eventually discharged from the hospital. Kate was discharged after spending the day in the ICU and being transferred back to labor and delivery. And while the scary chapter came to an end, the couple looks back wishing someone would have warned them about the possibility of developing the condition.
"We knew so much information," Joey said. "Yet, we had no idea that two weeks after giving birth, we should be watching for preeclampsia, eclampsia."
He added, "We were prepared for everything except the one [thing] that happened."
Now, weeks later, the couple is finally feeling like things are back to normal.
"My family is okay. They're thriving," Kate shared. "My baby's thriving. She's fine, and I'm good and getting better every day."
Read on for more celebrities sharing details on their health journeys.
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