Pregnant Ayrshire woman treated for tiredness was suffering rare pregnancy heart failure
Stewarton mum-to-be was told to take iron tablets for tiredness that later turned out to be a deadly heart condition. Heather McFerren said if her partner David Nicol, 31, hadn’t demanded staff at Crosshouse Hospital check her out on June 10 she could have died.And it ended with her baby being born six weeks early on June 17.Heather, 32, said: “I kept telling the midwife I could hardly walk a couple of steps without struggling to breathe.“I was told I was feeling like that because I was pregnant.“I was given iron tablets but when things started to get worse, my partner took me to hospital and insisted they find out what was wrong.“After a scan, I was diagnosed with pregnancy-induced heart failure, peripartum cardiomyopathy.