Baby girl born to 'dead' mother

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12 Jan 2009, 9:57 am

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An ice-skating star's baby has been born two days after she collapsed and died from a brain haemorrhage, a hospital has confirmed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7824462.stm

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12 Jan 2009, 10:40 am

Yeah, this is fairly close to me (geographically) and has made quite a storm on the local papers.

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12 Jan 2009, 6:42 pm

whooooooooooa.

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18 Jan 2009, 1:49 pm

She must have been mostly dead, not all dead. There is a difference. When you're mostly dead, your body is still operating on some level.

All dead = Completely inert

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18 Jan 2009, 6:53 pm

I don't know much about pregnancies, but would two days really have made a difference? I suppose pumping the steroids in to develop the baby's lungs was necessary, though.

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18 Jan 2009, 6:58 pm

The mother could not have been completely dead. She must have been just brain-dead. Her body must still have been warm, the blood still flowing in her veins ...

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18 Jan 2009, 7:10 pm

It said in the article that she was on assistance, of course she couldn't be dead, the baby would die due to a lack of oxygen at the least. They kept her body alive, and thats all.

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18 Jan 2009, 7:12 pm

ZOMBIE BABY!

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18 Jan 2009, 7:13 pm

AAAAHH O_O ! !

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19 Jan 2009, 1:24 am

That will make for an interesting show-n-tell...

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19 Jan 2009, 9:34 am

I don't see how this is strange.

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19 Jan 2009, 2:14 pm

Sora wrote:

I don't see how this is strange.

Seriously?
You can't even think of a single reason why it might f ck up a kids mind just a little to know that their mommy was brain-dead days before they were born?
Yowza.

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19 Jan 2009, 2:15 pm

Sora wrote:

I don't see how this is strange.

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In 1999, a boy was born at Cabuenes hospital in Gijon, northern Spain, on New Year's Eve to a mother who had been clinically dead since mid-November.

is clinically dead the equivilent to brain dead or actually dead?

i still think it's amazing how a baby can be born without the mother being able to interact.

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19 Jan 2009, 2:17 pm

familiar_stranger wrote:

i still think it's amazing how a baby can be born without the mother being able to interact.

Amazing... and not just a little bit disturbing.

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19 Jan 2009, 11:50 pm

slowmutant wrote:

She must have been mostly dead, not all dead. There is a difference. When you're mostly dead, your body is still operating on some level.

All dead = Completely inert

No no it's "mostly dead"

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There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do...Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

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20 Jan 2009, 12:50 am

NocturnalQuilter wrote:

Sora wrote:

I don't see how this is strange.

Seriously?
You can't even think of a single reason why it might f ck up a kids mind just a little to know that their mommy was brain-dead days before they were born?

And do you think that's uncommon?

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