Ice skater Jayne Soliman gives birth after being declared brain dead

[WriteDown]

Source: The Times

Doctors have delivered a baby girl two days after her mother, a former ice skating champion, collapsed from a fatal brain haemorrhage.

Jayne Soliman was declared brain-dead but doctors managed to keep her heart beating until they had delivered her daughter, Aya Jayne, by Caesarean section.

Mrs Soliman, 41, was only 25 weeks pregnant when she collapsed in her bedroom at home in Bracknell, Berkshire, having gone to bed complaining of a headache. She was airlifted to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, but was pronounced brain-dead hours later, on Wednesday evening. Doctors said that she had suffered a haemorrhage caused by an aggressive tumour.

Mrs Soliman was given huge doses of steroids to help the unborn child’s lungs to develop. Two days later, Aya was born, weighing less than 2 lb 2 oz (about 1kg). She was transferred to the intensive care unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where she remained last night....

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What an amazing story. Amazing that medical science has come so far.

[ogneopasno]

1. How sad. Thoughts with her and her family.

[skeewee08]

2. My prayers and thought go to the family.

[enlightenment]

3. This was also done in 1999, in Germany (I think).

A 30 year old suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage; she was 21 or 22 weeks pregnant. They kept her alive from mid-November to the new year and delivered the child at 29 weeks.

[emilyg]

4. God bless this baby and husband.

[applegrove]

5. Poor little baby. Poor family.

[JeanGrey]

6. What a miracle of the modern age and God. It is so heartwarming

to see the father cuddling his daughter.

[uppityperson]

7. My first thought was wondering if she was related to the Duggars. Best wishes to them all.

[WolverineDG]

8. Glad to hear the baby is okay

My condolences to the family for the loss of Jayne.

dg