How YouTuber Mr. Kate Ended Up in a Coma After Giving Birth to 2nd Baby

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YouTube star Kate Albrecht ended up in a coma two weeks after she and husband Joey Zehr welcomed their second baby.

The couple, who are famously the faces of the Mr. Kate DIY YouTube channel, recalled their experience nearly two months after their daughter Mars was born.

“I was so tired and so sore. 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,” Albrecht, 42, told People in an interview published on Friday, July 18, noting that she started getting intense migraines.

Albrecht recalled being at home with a family friend, who put her to bed — but she has no further memories of the day her illness worsened.

“I walk into the room, and Kate’s lying in bed with blood coming out of her mouth and clearly unconscious,” Zehr, 43, recalled. “So, I immediately jump on the bed and yell at her, and she won’t wake up.”

He added, “Then Kate started having seizures in the room, which was terrible to watch.”

Zehr said he was “f***ing freaking out,” especially after Albrecht was put into a medically induced coma. She was woken up the next morning after several tests had been run.

Albrecht was ultimately diagnosed with eclampsia, which are “seizures that occur in pregnant women with preeclampsia,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

“But I think the craziest thing about it all is that I think most people in pregnancy don’t necessarily know about … we were so prepared,” Zehr continued. “We knew so much information. Yet, we had no idea that two weeks after giving birth, we should be watching for preeclampsia, eclampsia.”

Albrecht noted that she had “checked out fine” throughout her entire pregnancy when undergoing tests.

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“In hindsight, during those two weeks knowing that she had some headaches, she probably was developing preeclampsia, but we didn’t really know to be watching,” Zehr explained. “We were prepared for everything except the one [thing] that happened.”

Aside from Mars, who was born on May 22, the internet stars are also parents to 6-year-old son Moon. Albrecht and Zehr have been married since 2013.

“When I first came home, I was just exhausted and lying around with my newborn, enjoying some sunshine and stuff,” Albrecht told People. “Then I’ve just been feeling better each day, feeling stronger each day, really comforted by the fact that this is known to be a one-time occurrence, and it’s caused by the blood pressure.”

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