A Florida mother has said she is savouring every day of her busy life after doctors believed she had died.

The Boca Raton mother-of-two said she was without a pulse for 45 minutes following complications from a routine Caesarean section after she gave birth to a healthy baby girl less than a month ago.

Doctors told her family to say their final farewells before they pronounced her dead, but moments later her heart began beating again. Medical officials called her survival a double miracle because she suffered no brain damage.

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