Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler

[Niels Bohr 72]

Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:55pm EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.

The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.

The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.

Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

(Writing by Avida Landau, Editing by Mike Collett-White)

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Amazing! What a miracle!

Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:55pm EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.

The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.

The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.

Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

(Writing by Avida Landau, Editing by Mike Collett-White)

[MichelleN 0]

Amazing! What a miracle!

Only a miracle if she survives. Otherwise this is nothing more than a cruel twist of fate, giving the parents false hope to only have their child die twice.

[PlatyPius 5]

It's a miracle if the baby lives, it's "god's will" if the baby dies. Gotta hedge all of your bets.

[MichelleN 0]

It's a miracle if the baby lives, it's "god's will" if the baby dies. Gotta hedge all of your bets.

Seriously. Can't risk PO'ing the big guy by actually being angry with him for letting a baby die.

[boohbah 0]

that would be a BIG miracle. the baby's lungs have just began developing at this point...

[Krikit 1,164]

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth

*licks pencil*

600 grams x (F - 32) x 5/9 = C = ??? lbs

Aw, screw it.

[caybee 21]

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth

*licks pencil*

600 grams x (F - 32) x 5/9 = C = ??? lbs

Aw, screw it.

1.32

[panamania79 2]

Amazing! What a miracle!

Only a miracle if she survives. Otherwise this is nothing more than a cruel twist of fate, giving the parents false hope to only have their child die twice.

[Yaads 0]

Amazing! What a miracle!

Only a miracle if she survives. Otherwise this is nothing more than a cruel twist of fate, giving the parents false hope to only have their child die twice.

Ditto.

1.32 pounds is awfully small and as was already pointed out the lungs were just developing. I sure hope he survives.

Edited August 19, 2008 by Yardiewife

[Chica Yeyé 41]

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth

*licks pencil*

600 grams x (F - 32) x 5/9 = C = ??? lbs

Aw, screw it.

Krikit, you rule.