Orlando, Fla. ? Claudia Mejia checked into the hospital April 28 and gave birth to a healthy baby boy. But then things went terribly wrong.

While in Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital, she contracted a “flesh-eating” bacteria, and 12 days later doctors amputated both her arms and her legs to save her life.

Now, Mejia, 24, of Sanford, Fla., has begun a legal battle. She is not asking for money. Right now, her attorneys are demanding that Orlando Regional Healthcare System Inc., which operates the Longwood, Fla., hospital, release information about other victims of the same bacteria.

The company has refused, citing patient privacy.

More than 200 cases of the aggressive streptococcal infection, which is resistant to antibiotics, are reported annually in Florida, according to the state Health Department.

Mejia said she does not know how she got the infection, but, according to the suit, it had to have been at South Seminole Hospital.

She gave birth to Matthew with no problems.

Then a rash appeared and she had severe pain in her belly.

The rash, the medical staff told her, was a possible allergic reaction to the sheets, and the stomach pain was normal for someone who’d just given birth, her husband said.

Two days later, her condition turned critical. She was moved to intensive care. Soon after, doctors performed a hysterectomy.

According to her medical records, Mejia suffered not just the infection, she went into shock and her kidneys began to shut down. Gangrene set in.

Twelve days after she gave birth, doctors amputated her arms and legs.

“They gave her a choice of either dying or getting her limbs amputated,” said her husband, a manager at Target in Lake Mary, Fla.