Miracle mum owes her life to 39 blood donors after suffering severed artery during birth of daughter

GILLIAN Greenan owes her life to at least 39 strangers – after she lost almost four times her body’s blood after the birth of her daughter.
The brave mum needed a staggering 33 transfusions in just 10 hours to keep her alive following the birth of her fifth and youngest child, Poppy.
It means the 43-year-old – who had been a regular blood donor since she was 18 – can no longer donate.
But determined Gillian has rallied her husband Robert and other family and friends to do it on her behalf.
And it has taken them three years to donote the amount that Gillian, from Armadale, West Lothian, was... read more