A baby is born four months after his mother suffered brain death

As one of my companions commented, this type of news provokes mixed feelings, because you are glad that everything possible has been done so that a baby is born well but, on the other hand, it causes you discomfort that your mother's vital organs have been maintained working, even though she already had brain death.

That is precisely the case at hand and, far from emotions, we highlight the medical and human work that has led to the birth of a baby after his mother died four months earlier.

His name is Eliska, and he spent 117 days in the womb of Eva, his mother, in a state of brain death, kept alive artificially until the end of pregnancy. The Brno Optional Hospital (Czech Republic) where it took place this birth, who qualify as "only one in the world", has advanced that the baby is well.

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The newborn's mother suffered a brain hemorrhage, caused by a genetic malformation on April 21. She was 16 weeks pregnant and her baby weighed only 250 grams. That same day his brain death was diagnosed and it was decided to keep his breathing and vital functions to make the pregnancy viable.

The medical team and the family simulated normal conditions for the development of pregnancy: songs were put, the mother was massaged in the belly, the nurses talked to Eliska, and her grandmother read her stories. Even A machine simulated that the mother walked to create a sensation of movement.

In addition, their lung activity, the evolution of the mother's kidneys and the necessary feeding for the baby were monitored.

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Y, on August 15, Eliska was born, weighing 2,130 kilos and 42 centimeters tall.

Eva, was only 27 years old at the time of her death, and began to suffer epilepsy attacks during her first pregnancy, when she was diagnosed with arteriovenous malformation, which began to be treated after delivery.

According to Pavel Ventruba, head of the Department of Gynecology and Maternity of the Czech hospital:

“This case is very rare and will enter the annals of world medicine. And confirms the great strength of human life. It is a unique case in the world, for the duration of the process and the weight of the creature at birth. "

But although it is described as exceptional, it is not the first time that we talk about babies born after the brain death of their mother, and we even know the case of a birth after keeping the mother that lasted 123 days.

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The obstetrician proudly adds:

“Pregnancy, despite all a series of incredible complications, developed very well from the child's point of view. As if nothing had happened".

Eliska is now in the care of her aunt (who is breastfeeding her) and her father, a policeman from the town of Trebic, in the southeast of the Czech Republic.

And you do you think? Do you agree with these procedures? We are waiting for your comments.

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