Loved ones have remembered Megan Walsh in tributes on social media. Photo/Facebook
Loved ones have remembered Megan Walsh in tributes on social media. Photo/Facebook
A pregnant teenager has drowned after suffering an epileptic fit in her friend's bathtub.
Megan Walsh, 19, was pulled from the bath "cold" and "lifeless" after suffering an epileptic fit and sinking beneath the water's surface, 9News reported.
The friend performed CPR on Walsh but she went into cardiac arrestand died in hospital after she was rushed from the home in Newcastle, north of Sydney, on Saturday, according to Daily Mail.
She was 14 weeks pregnant and was so excited she was already looking at baby names.
The friend said she opened the bathroom door after her knocks went unanswered.
"I open the door and there she is lifeless in my bathtub. Cold, white, unresponsive, not breathing, blue lips, dead weight," she told 9News.
"It was traumatising."
Walsh was diagnosed aged four with epilepsy and had been taking medication, but was suffering seizures more frequently after falling pregnant, her sister Jemma told 9News.
