A Mom of Two Kids Yawned So Hard She Broke Her Neck

We all know that parenting can be exhausting, but I admit I didn’t realize how dangerous that exhaustion could be.

That is, until I heard the story of a mom who broke her neck from yawning too hard. And it might sound a little hard to believe, maybe even a bit humorous, but the real story is that the mother came dangerously close to losing her life over the incident, and even suffered temporary paralysis and long-lasting injuries.

Yes, this is a real story, and yes, it really happened to mom of two Hayley Black, now 36. Black recently went viral on TikTok for sharing the story of how, way back in 2016, she broke her neck after yawning so hard.

While the original TikTok seems to have been deleted or made private, Black told her story to The Daily Mail, which detailed how exactly the terrifying incident happened.

Black had woken around 5 a.m. to make her newborn daughter a bottle when she "instinctively" yawned after seeing her baby yawn. Then, the pain hit.

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Mom yawns and becomes paralyzed when her neck broke

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