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Baby Girl Born to Brain-Dead Mother in Czech Hospital

MEDICAL MIRACLE

The mother was on life support after suffering a brain hemorrhage.

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A Czech clinic announced that a baby girl was born earlier this month to a brain-dead woman kept on life support for three months in order to allow the baby to be born. The 4.6-pound girl was born at 34 weeks by cesarean section in the University Hospital of Brno, the second-largest Czech city according to AP News. The 27-year-old mother suffered a brain hemorrhage in early June and was only a few weeks into her pregnancy. Reports say that the baby is now with her father but did not comment on the infant’s health.

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