A pregnant mother who visited a McDonald's drive-thru with her children later found herself fighting for her life after suffering a placental rupture. Kim Morgan, 32, from Skelmersdale, had taken her two older children for a treat after school before she began bleeding heavily at home.
Her partner Jamie Webster rushed her to Ormskirk Hospital, but she arrived unconscious having lost 2.4 litres of blood. Her daughter Ellie was born on April 2 2024, unresponsive and without a heartbeat. Doctors took 21 minutes to revive her, but she had suffered brain damage due to lack of oxygen.
Ellie, now 16 months old, has been diagnosed with drug-resistant uncontrollable epilepsy and suffers hundreds of seizures a day. She has no gag reflex, cannot swallow, and is fed through a tube. The family have been told she requires palliative care, with no known life expectancy.
Kim and Jamie have been unable to work since Ellie's birth, with Jamie losing his job as a lab technician. They have launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover travel costs and medical equipment. Ellie remains at Alder Hey Children's Hospital after developing a mystery rash.
