Baby lives hours after being pronounced dead
 

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...23405020080823

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.

The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.

The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.

Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

Wow!

I take it that must have worked a little like, you know, when people get shot, you put them in a freezer; and they can live.

Bet the parents got a surprise....

And people don't believe in miracles...

She was pronounced dead (again) though. Sad. I thought she was meant to live.

brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/premature-baby-comes-to-life-
after-six-hours-in-morgue/2008/08/19/1218911628409.html

Oh, that's shit.

She might come to life again :)



..... maybe :(

awww :( poor little girl. But I really don't understand though how she could die and come back to life....?

Sad news to hear.

It's possible she was so barely alive that it didn't register as being alive to the doctors equipment, and then the cold might have indeed slowed the baby's metabolism enough to help her live.


Some of us like using critical thinking and logic to understand the unknown instead of jumping to superstitions and archaic beliefs. But whatever floats your boat.

I'm sorry, you were saying?

One of my friends from school has a twin brother who was pronounced dead upon birth, but he re-animated afterwards I suppose, I've met him, though apparently it did some sort of brain damage, and he has a very hard time fitting in and learning etc.

That I thought the girl was going to live longer than she did.

Wasn't directed at you.

Oh, sorry for ruining that. I tend to be slow at times.

That's going to be in my list of my Ophelia's Top 5 Remarks!!!
Chairman LMAO can't hold a candle to that post.


(though it was merely a coincidental irony)

I've said five interesting or funny things?

umm....yeah....it's called a MEDICAL ERROR. Douchebags.

Ahhh, that made my morning. :D

... I love you. That cracked me up.

Joker beat me to it. There are no miracles, just as of yet unexplained phenomenon.

Aww, poor baby girl! :(

I'm thinking of Dead Alive and I shouldn't be.

Zombie baby.

Jesus got to the whole dying-for-our-sins thing a little earlier this time around.

G.net threads, Now with 50% more dead baby action!!!