[quote]41-year-old child's mother suffered from brain cancer. When she was in the 17th week of pregnancy, her condition dramatically worsened. She then went to the hospital at Borowska. When she lost consciousness, doctors took her the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. She had brain death. Although the heart still beating, but it was known that the woman did not survive. And because she was only 17 week of pregnancy, the child was also too small to be able to live outside the mother's body.
As her heart was still beating, doctors decided to maintain vital functions at any cost, using devices and drugs.
After 55 days, it was safe for the boy to come into the world. Now after C-section baby is healthy and at home with his dad.
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Source: Polish newspaper Nowa Trybuna Opolska
[url]http://www.nto.pl/polska-i-swiat/a/cud-we-wroclawiu-kobieta-ktora-nie-zyla-od-55-dni-urodzila-dziecko,9893302/[/url]
Also, there was a similar case back 3 years ago
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2506281/Baby-born-brain-dead-mother-foetus-survives-15-27-weeks.html[/url]
Dead =/= brain dead but that's still surprising.
Wow, that's quite fortunate. It's just a shame he never got to meet his mother though.
She was still clinically "alive" throughout all of it.
Incredibly traumatic for her entire family, however. Glad the baby's well.
"41-year-old child's mother"
that wording tho.
That must be some haunting knowledge for the child to grow up with.
[QUOTE=Galaxy;50167549]That must be some haunting knowledge for the child to grow up with.[/QUOTE]
"you were born from a dead person kept alive as a vegetable!"
i would rather "you're adopted!"
[QUOTE=CoixNiro;50167583]"you were born from a dead person kept alive as a vegetable!"
i would rather "you're adopted!"[/QUOTE]
I'd prefer chosen one.
[QUOTE=jimbobjoe1234;50167589]I'd prefer chosen one.[/QUOTE]
I would prefer perfectly normally born child or artificial insemination.
Would be really freaky if the kid actually was the chosen one of some obscure force or will. Highly unlikely, impossible even, but still an interesting thought.
This kid is going to have one hella story when he grows up.
That dad must be feeling weird. Something horrible has happened but yet, he was still able to receive his child
If the father were dead would the kid count as an orphan or not?
[QUOTE=Axsisel;50167745]If the father were dead would the kid count as an orphan or not?[/QUOTE]
That is the million dollar question, I honestly have no idea.
This is so tragic
[QUOTE=CoixNiro;50167583]"you were born from a dead person kept alive as a vegetable!"
i would rather "you're adopted!"[/QUOTE]
"Your mother's last wish was that you be saved at any cost. When her cancer effectively took her life by destroying her brain, modern medical science kept the rest of her alive long enough to fulfill her dying wish, you."
[QUOTE=Axsisel;50167745]If the father were dead would the kid count as an orphan or not?[/QUOTE]
Sure..?
At least by the time they take the mother off the life-support, and write down her time of death.
I'd just tell the child his mother died during birth until he was old enough to truly understand what happened. This is a beautiful story though, no matter how sad it is. This man may have lost his wife, but at least he was able to keep his child and raise it in her memory. I'm happy for him.
Not medically knowledgeable, but exposed to medicine here. Is there a possibility the child may also have cancer if it was metastatic and travelled through the bloodstream? That would be... ugh.
[QUOTE=Aetna;50167952]I'd just tell the child his mother died during birth until he was old enough to truly understand what happened. This is a beautiful story though, no matter how sad it is. This man may have lost his wife, but at least he was able to keep his child and raise it in her memory. I'm happy for him.[/QUOTE]
how about "when you were very young". I've always felt like telling a kid their mother died giving birth could make them feel some weird responsibility for it happening, especially if it's clear the father is sad, or worse if they get angry at the child a lot.
[QUOTE=dai;50167989]how about "when you were very young". I've always felt like telling a kid their mother died giving birth could make them feel some weird responsibility for it happening, especially if it's clear the father is sad, or worse if they get angry at the child a lot.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough, it's possible the child may feel that way. My buddy's mom died during birth and he doesn't feel responsible, just a little disappointed he never met his biological mother even though his stepmother is pretty much his real mom to him anyway.
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[QUOTE=Jon27;50167959]Not medically knowledgeable, but exposed to medicine here. Is there a possibility the child may also have cancer if it was metastatic and travelled through the bloodstream? That would be... ugh.[/QUOTE]
From what I understand it's possible but unlikely? Just like how a mother with HIV doesn't pass the virus to her child until the actual birthing process, but they've found ways to avoid it. I think the greater fear is the possibility of a recessive gene that causes the child to develop cancer way later in life. Just speculating here, I'm no doctor either.
This is like the beginning to a modern version of the Bible.
[QUOTE=Jon27;50167959]Not medically knowledgeable, but exposed to medicine here. Is there a possibility the child may also have cancer if it was metastatic and travelled through the bloodstream? That would be... ugh.[/QUOTE]
it was proven to occur recently at a genetic level, it's very unlikely to actually happen but there's still an outside possibility. Specifically, it was leukemia cells that passed from the mother into the baby's bloodstream. Mind you, this has been reported a few times before this, but it was only after this that absolute proof was gathered on this score.
[URL]http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20091012/cancer-may-pass-from-pregnant-mom-to-baby[/URL]
heres a link to the study itself, or at least an abstract; [URL]http://www.pnas.org/content/106/42/17882.abstract[/URL]
full case report: [URL]http://www.pnas.org/content/106/42/17882.full[/URL]
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