A Paraguayan family received a huge surprise when their premature baby boy was declared dead and later found to be alive when he was taken home for a funeral wake.
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The baby was born 16 weeks prematurely at a state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion. The hospital pronounced him dead after staff tried to revive him for an hour, a doctor who works in the maternity unit told the BBC. According to medical records he weighed only 1.1 pounds when he was born.
"Initially, the baby didn't move, he practically didn't have any respiratory reflexes, nor did we hear a heartbeat and, as a result, we declared a premature fetus of 24 weeks dead," Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the hospital, told Reuters Television.
The hospital provided the parents Liliana and Jose Alvarenga with a death certificate and a "coffin," a cardboard box with the baby's name scribbled on the side. They placed their deceased child in the box, went home, and then the unbelievable happened.
"I opened the box and took the baby out and he cried. I got scared and I said 'the baby's crying' ... and then he started moving his arms, his legs and I got scared, we got very scared," Liliana told Reuters Television.
The baby is now back at the hospital's intensive care unit and reported to be in a stable condition. An investigation is looking into what happened.
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UPDATE
Paraguay Baby Passes Away
Liliana and Jose Alvarenga have been on an emotional roller-coaster that nobody should have to endure.
Last week, doctors told the parents that their baby boy was dead, shortly after being born prematurely at a state-run hospital in Paraguay. But when the Alvarengas brought their son home, he did the unbelievable and started to cry. He was actually alive. (SFGate ran a blog post on the uplifting story earlier today.)
But medical staff told the BBC News that Angel Salvador later lost his fight to live. His vital organs were not strong enough to survive. His death was confirmed Monday.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=45287&tsp=1#ixzz0Nwd8l7Tj
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The baby was born 16 weeks prematurely at a state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion. The hospital pronounced him dead after staff tried to revive him for an hour, a doctor who works in the maternity unit told the BBC. According to medical records he weighed only 1.1 pounds when he was born.
"Initially, the baby didn't move, he practically didn't have any respiratory reflexes, nor did we hear a heartbeat and, as a result, we declared a premature fetus of 24 weeks dead," Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the hospital, told Reuters Television.
The hospital provided the parents Liliana and Jose Alvarenga with a death certificate and a "coffin," a cardboard box with the baby's name scribbled on the side. They placed their deceased child in the box, went home, and then the unbelievable happened.
"I opened the box and took the baby out and he cried. I got scared and I said 'the baby's crying' ... and then he started moving his arms, his legs and I got scared, we got very scared," Liliana told Reuters Television.
The baby is now back at the hospital's intensive care unit and reported to be in a stable condition. An investigation is looking into what happened.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=45210#ixzz0NoTCSnPx
thank you Uneek for linking this to me.
UPDATE
Paraguay Baby Passes Away
Liliana and Jose Alvarenga have been on an emotional roller-coaster that nobody should have to endure.
Last week, doctors told the parents that their baby boy was dead, shortly after being born prematurely at a state-run hospital in Paraguay. But when the Alvarengas brought their son home, he did the unbelievable and started to cry. He was actually alive. (SFGate ran a blog post on the uplifting story earlier today.)
But medical staff told the BBC News that Angel Salvador later lost his fight to live. His vital organs were not strong enough to survive. His death was confirmed Monday.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=45287&tsp=1#ixzz0Nwd8l7Tj
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