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Brain-dead woman gives birth to baby girl

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A brain-dead woman gave birth to a girl at The University Hospital Brno in the Czech Republic. She had been on life support for three months after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

At the time, the hospital said doctors would keep the mother alive on mechanical support until the baby was developed enough to be delivered.

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This is not the first case of this kind, as former international athlete Catarina Sequeira gave birth to her son Salvador when she had been declared brain dead for three months after suffering an acute asthma attack at home.

The baby was able to survive in the womb because it had a ventilator attached and was born when the mother, 26, was nearly 32 weeks – before she had her life support switched off.

In 2016, a baby called Lourenço Salvador Faria was born in Lisbon, Portugal, after 15 weeks in his dead mother’s womb.

Doctors are planning to give more information at a press conference next Monday.

Lourenco Salvador sleeping in his cot after being born 107 days after his mother was declared brain dead.

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