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Mother-of-four Fallon Devaney, 25, was struggling for breath and was admitted to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.

Her mother, Linda Fearney, said she had flu symptoms for more than a week and that the hospital told her she had swine flu.

Ms Fearney told the Derby Telegraph newspaper she was taken aside by a doctor and told that either miss Devaney, the unborn baby, or both could die.

Miss Devaney, from Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, is five months pregnant with her fifth child and is in intensive care, a hospital spokesman said. "We have a no-change situation, meaning she is still critical but stable," he added.

Ms Fearney told the Derby Telegraph a GP visited her daughter, who has not been vaccinated against swine flu, at her home and diagnosed her with influenza and gave her antibiotics.

But her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to hospital last Tuesday.

Hundreds of messages have been sent to miss Devaney through a Facebook group called Get Well soon Fallon.

Figures out earlier this week showed that 17 people have died from flu so far this winter. the Health Protection Agency said 14 deaths were from swine flu and another three from flu type B.

All victims were under 65, including six under-18s. at least eight of the 17 were in an "at-risk" group, although none was pregnant and none had been vaccinated.