Baby girl born to “brain dead” British skating star
Ice skating star Jayne Soliman was 25 weeks pregnant when she collapsed and suffered from a brain hemorrhage last week. Doctors at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in the UK kept the mother’s heart beating long enough to deliver the baby. Aya Jayne was born last Friday, January 9 just weighing over 2 lbs but otherwise alive and stable, according to BBC.
For the father, it was an emotional roller coaster of having to live through the death of his wife and welcoming a new daughter in a space of 48 hours.
41-year old Jayne was a professional free skater. She won the British championship for professional free skating in 1989 and ranked number seven in the world.
This is not the first time that a baby is delivered to a brain dead mother. There was the case of a baby boy born in Spain born on New Year’s Eve 1999-2000 to a mother who had been “clinically dead” for several weeks- since November 13. The boy was delivered on the 29th week of pregnancy. There have also been reported cases of pregnant women in a coma who carry babies to term.
