A woman who went into a coma following a traumatic labour seven years ago has astounded doctors by waking up. Danijela Kovacevic, from Serbia, gave birth to a baby girl, Marija, in 2009 but lapsed into unconsciousness after developing deadly blood poisoning, sepsis.
The 25-year-old, from Indjija in the northern part of the country, remained in a vegetative state for years becoming one of the country's longest-surviving coma patients, but has stunned medics by waking up - and meeting her daughter for the first time.
The young girl is now seven years old and, in one particularly heart-warming image, is seen cuddling her mother who appears to gaze back in wonder.
It comes after the youngster kept an almost-constant vigil by her parent's bedside.
'After school, Marija is close to her mama every day,' a family friend says. 'She comforts her, makes her laugh and does not give up the hope that she will touch her and embrace her.'
Now, doctors in a German rehabilitation clinic, based in Pforzheim, say she has advanced to the point where she can hold a tablet and pen in her hand, as well as sit up and follow conversations.
The progress is a result of extensive physical and speech therapy that stimulates brain cell function.
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