'Miracle' mom who gave birth to 2lb baby boy while in a coma and then awoke to meet her newborn dies three years later

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The miracle mom who gave birth to a baby boy while she was in a coma and awoke to meet her newborn has died three years after the accident that changed her life. 

Sharista Giles, of Sweetwater, Tennessee, was four months pregnant when she was in a car crash with friends that left her in a coma for months. 

Doctors only gave Sharista a two per cent chance of survival. Her son Leighton was delivered prematurely and only weighed one pound and 14 ounces at birth. 

But Sharista eventually opened her eyes and got three years to see her son grow up. Family revealed she passed away on Monday from ongoing health complications. 

Sharista Giles, 22, has died three years after she gave birth to a baby boy while in a coma 

Doctors gave Sharista a two per cent chance of survival but, four months after the car accident that changed her life, she awoke to meet her baby boy and lived for another three years 

'This saddens our hearts tremendously,' Sharista's family said in a statement. 'But we know she is no longer in pain or suffering. Our precious angel is dancing in the sky.' 

'Sharista has been such a strong young lady and we all will miss her every day.'

The exact cause of Sharista's death remains unknown.

Beverly Giles, Sharista's aunt, said that the young woman - who would have been 23 in July - never fully recovered from the accident. 

Family revealed Sharista passed away on Monday from ongoing health complications. She never fully recovered and was bedridden after being released from the hospital 

Family call Sharista's son a 'miracle baby'. He celebrated his third birthday in January 

'She tried to speak and she could move her hands and stuff,' Giles told WFMY. 'But since the crash Sharista was basically bedridden.' 

Sharista had been returning from a Nashville concert with two friends when the car hydroplaned and crashed into a guardrail in December 2014. 

While her two friends were left unscathed, Sharista had been trapped in her passenger seat and suffered brain damage. 

Leighton was born at just 26 weeks and Sharista's doctors warned her family that she would never wake up.

Sharista had been returning from a Nashville concert with two friends when the car hydroplaned and crashed into a guardrail in December 2014. She was four months pregnant 

Leighton (pictured right as an infant and left in a later photo) was born at just 26 weeks and Sharista's doctors warned her family that she would never wake up

But they never gave up hope and, four months later, she opened her eyes. 

'I can't grasp it, it's just a relief,' Sharista's mother, Anna Moser, told WATE at the time. 'I know it's truly a miracle, it's truly a miracle.' 

And the family considers Leighton, who just celebrated his third birthday in January, to be a miracle as well. 

'We are very blessed to have her son to help her memory live on,' a statement from the family said. 

'Leighton will grow up knowing how much his mother loved him through the stories that we all have to tell him about her.' 

'Leighton will grow up knowing how much his mother loved him through the stories that we all have to tell him about her,' the family said in a statement