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Dead woman gives birth
A British woman gave birth to a baby by caesarean section two days after she had collapsed and died from a brain haemorrhage, it was reported yesterday.
The Guardian website, www.guardian. co.uk, reported that former British champion ice skater Jayne Soliman, 41, was declared brain-dead at an Oxford hospital but doctors managed to keep her heart beating long enough to deliver Aya Jayne by caesarean section.
Soliman was only 25 weeks’ pregnant when she collapsed at home last Wednesday, having complained of a headache.
The website reported: “Doctors said the skater had suffered a brain haemorrhage caused by an aggressive tumour which had struck a major blood vessel.
“She was given large doses of steroids to help the child’s lungs develop and within 48 hours gave birth to the baby, who weighed 0.95kg. Her husband, Mahmoud, was with her when the child was born.”
Doctors briefly put the baby next to Soliman before they turned off the life- support system, the Guardian said
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