Infant Born To Woman Brain-Dead For 55 Days Goes Home
- 8 years ago
A baby boy in Poland has gone home after three months in intensive care; he had been delivered 55 days after his brain-dead mother had been put on life support with the goal of helping him develop enough to survive.
A baby boy in Poland has been sent home from the hospital in relatively healthy condition but without his mother who sacrificed her life for the child, reports BBC.
According to Sky News, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor but had declined treatment to protect her unborn child as she was 17-weeks pregnant at that time.
The woman was rushed to the hospital last year, where she was declared brain-dead.
At her prior request, she was kept on life support so the baby could c
A baby boy in Poland has been sent home from the hospital in relatively healthy condition but without his mother who sacrificed her life for the child, reports BBC.
According to Sky News, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor but had declined treatment to protect her unborn child as she was 17-weeks pregnant at that time.
The woman was rushed to the hospital last year, where she was declared brain-dead.
At her prior request, she was kept on life support so the baby could c