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One firefighter eventually got a pulse, but \"she wasn't responding to anything and so it was not looking good for us.\" Anticipating a \"worst-case scenario,\" Spears and husband Jamie Watson -- with whom she also shares daughter Ivey, 2 -- asked for a priest to come pray for her in the ICU.

\"He went to put the oil on her head and read the [last] rites and she sat up and started kicking, and her hands started grabbing at all the things,\" the singer added. \"That was our first sign that she was there.\"

Spears has opted to look at the positive instead of dwelling on the negative. Over the last few years, the mom of two said \"everything changed\" for her as a parent.

\"God gave me the blessing of giving me my daughter back. I lost her and I got her back,\" she concluded. \"So I don't get to make any excuses. I've been given the best, biggest blessing you can be given. I'm not allowed to waste a day on this earth complaining or being ungrateful.\"

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