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Jamie Lynn Spearsis reflecting on a scary moment in her daughter’s life.
“Today is our#MIRACLEANNIVERSARY🕊️ Every year that passes and I watch my daughter grow up, the more I realize how very blessed we are, and never want to take that for granted,” Spears wrote.
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Spears shares daughter Maddie, 15, with ex Casey Aldridge. She is also mom to daughter Ivey Joan, 5, whom she shares with husband Jamie Watson.
Recalling what happened to her castmates, Spears said, “I almost lost my oldest daughter … She drowned and we couldn’t save her.”
“My father-in-law, my mother-in-law, me and my husband, we run to jump in to save her and you kind of — in that moment you think, ‘This is not real. She’s going to pop up, this isn’t real,’ " she continued.
“I could feel her arm, and I’m jerking it, I couldn’t get her up because it’s apretty heavy machine. In that moment you think, you know logically she’s been underwater too long.”
Spears recalled sitting there distraught and covered in vomit as she heard her mother-in-law call her own mom, and say, “‘Lynne, we’ve lost Maddie.'”
Moments later, a firefighter let Spears know Maddie did have a pulse.
“They airlifted her. She’s hooked up on life support, breathing machines and all that… they come in, [bring] apriest to read her her last rites, and when they did, her body physically sat up,” the mom of two said.
“Her spirit responded to it for whatever reason. She got better and better every day and walked out of the hospital. [She] has no repercussions. So that’s when I became Catholic. For about five minutes I thought I’d lost my daughter and then I was given the miracle of having her back.”
Spears tearfully admitted, “My biggest fear was she was going to die thinking her momma wasn’t trying to save her.”
source: people.com
