Nearly five hours after being stillborn following a pre-mature delivery, an infant started breathing again to life when the relatives were carrying her to cemetery.
The 30-year-old mother Aruna Gaikwad from western-Indian city of Mumbai was admitted to Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital on June 15 after being refused from three reputed city hospitals. She suffered from convulsions resulting from high blood-pressure in her pregnancy in the seventh month of gestation.
Gaikwad was induced labor to undergo delivery and was put on anti-convulgents and anti-hypertensive therapy. The baby was delivered on the evening on June 16. As no heartbeat was felt, the doctors declared the child was stillborn.
While the members of the family were heading to make funeral preparations, the baby girl started gasping. The family immediately took her back to the hospital, where she is being kept in the neonatal intensive care unit. The baby, who weighs 1,400 grams, is critical and is on a ventilator, reports The Times of India newspaper.
The doctors believe that a high dose of sedatives coupled with the convulsions may have suppressed the fetal heart beat and when the effect of the sedative wore off, she started breathing again.
Hospital dean Dr. Suleiman Merchant told the newspaper that though a preliminary inquiry shows that the child was presumed dead on visual observation but the authorities are making a detailed inquiry to rule out any negligence.
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