A woman who was placed in a medically induced coma has revealed what it was like to feel "trapped" in her own body—still able to hear, feel and see her surroundings.

Earlier this year, Toyosi Adeneye learned that she was pregnant, expecting a baby this November. However, she was soon diagnosed with a short cervix, which increases the risk of preterm birth or miscarriage.

By the time she reached 23 weeks, Adeneye—who goes by the pseudonym Dorothy Tuash online—was already 4 centimeters dilated, and her waters broke. She told Newsweek that she was in pre-term labor, and surgeons had to perform "an emergency dilation and evacuation" on her in July.

The 30-year-old was subsequently diagnosed with chorioamnionitis, a serious condition that occurs when the membranes that surround the fetus a

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