Boy born to brain-dead mother goes home

Boy born to brain-dead mother goes home

The 41-year-old mother was taken to hospital 17 weeks into the abundance with an cureless academician tumour. Her activity abutment has been switched off.

Authorities in Poland say a babyish boy has gone home safe and able-bodied afterwards his brain-dead mother was kept animate on activity abutment so he could be born.

Boy born to brain-dead mother goes home

Doctors at Wroclaw University kept the mother animate for 55 canicule while they waited for the boy to grow.

Doctors delivered the babyish if they advised the boy's activity was in danger.

He was built-in in January in the 26th anniversary of the pregnancy, belief just 1kg (2.2lbs), said Barbara Krolak-Olejnik, arch of the neonatal assemblage at the hospital.

"It's attenuate to auspiciously advance a abundance for so long, that it is at such an aboriginal stage, at 17 or 18 weeks," Ms Krolak-Olejnik told the AFP account agency.

"Her accomplished ancestors capital us to try to save the child," she added.

The little boy spent three months in accelerated affliction and has now gone home with family, belief 3kg.

The mother's activity abutment was switched off anon afterwards the birth.

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