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Woman Gives Birth Two Days After Dying
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United Press International
January 14, 2009
Doctors in Oxford, England, say they kept a woman’s body alive for two days after her death to allow her to give birth.
The Daily Mail said Monday despite the fact professional ice skater Jayne Soliman was declared brain dead last week, doctors were able to keep her body alive long enough to deliver her unborn child via Cesarean section.
David Phillips, a fellow skater and friend of Soliman’s, said Soliman was deemed legally dead last Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by a tumor.
The 41-year-old woman had been 25 weeks pregnant at the time, so doctors used large doses of steroids to speed up the unborn child’s lung development.
Phillips said within 48 hours of Soliman’s official death, she became the proud mother of a nearly 2 pound, 2 ounce girl.
“She lived to have a baby girl — that was the one thing she wanted in her life,” Phillips told the Mail of last Friday’s birth.
“This would have been the best day of her life,” he added later.
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kimolin
over 4 years ago
2 comments
I am so thankful doctors and people in England consider a fetus at 25 weeks to be a human life. I wish and pray the legal system and medical community in the United States would see human life begins at conception. A couple of questions I have are, could this mothers body been kept alive artificially for a longer time to give the baby more time to be inutero to 30 - 32 weeks? How is this neonate, father and grandparents doing now, and was this woman able to be an organ doner?
shirleyl
over 4 years ago
8 comments
oh! this is so amazing and beautiful..thank God
kween218
over 4 years ago
8 comments
thats incredible, yet sad
kywog
over 4 years ago
4 comments
This is sad but something good came from this, a new life. I pray that God comforts the family and sends his angels to protect this little girl. There is a reason she is here.
wildflower
over 4 years ago
4 comments
Bless the little girl, I wish for her that she will have a happy and healthy life
Luminita
over 4 years ago
10 comments
Yes, very sad story. Only God knows why this had to be that way.
AbusyRN2go
over 4 years ago
13876 comments
Very sad, glad the baby lived.
aabryan
over 4 years ago
24 comments
This is just an amazing outcome. It's sad the baby is without a mom. Hopefully, the baby would be raised in a good environment.
iampham92
over 4 years ago
2 comments
wow......thats all i can say, what modern medicine can do is amazing, hopefuly the mother is happy somewhere in heaven and that the baby knows how much she loves her when she grows up
casassy62688
over 4 years ago
290 comments
Very sad story.... God bless.
jesscinq88
over 4 years ago
8 comments
I can't believe it...... so tragic, yet such a miracle that they were able to save the baby. God works in mysterious ways!
GBPrice
over 4 years ago
108 comments
The baby girl's name is Aya Jayne (after her mother).
Account Removed
over 4 years ago
That's sad! It kind of makes you wonder what they named the baby tho??
mandietaylor
over 4 years ago
234 comments
My prayers go out to this family. I hate to hear such a sad story.
emtpixie
over 4 years ago
328 comments
So, so sad! I hope the baby has lots of close family to raise her and tell her all about her mom.