The 26-year-old Portuguese canoeist Catalina Sequeira suffered an acute asthma attack while pregnant for 12 weeks. He was in an induced coma for a while and when he was 19 weeks pregnant, entered brain death.
The doctors and the family decided then keep it artificially alive for three months so that her baby, whom they called Salvador, could be born.
The delivery was planned for today, but before a "respiratory deterioration" of the mother, the Chief of Neonatology of the Hospital of São João de Oporto, did not want to wait any longer and they had a caesarean section yesterday, after almost 32 weeks gestation.
Specifically, Salvador was born with 31 weeks and six days of gestation and 1.7 kilos, a weight that corresponds to your gestational age.
In Babies and more A baby is born after staying for two months in the womb of his mother with brain death"Our challenge was to keep your body and organs viable. We guarantee hemodynamic, respiratory, metabolic stability and thus avoid the main problems that arise from the state of brain death, particularly pituitary dysfunction, causing significant metabolic disorders," he explained after Teresa Honorable childbirth, from the Intensive Medicine Service.
With 32 weeks it is more viable for the baby to get ahead without sequelae. Although at the time of delivery he presented respiratory problems and needed mechanical ventilation, it evolves favorably and the respirator will be removed in the next few hours.
As an athlete, Catalina won 41 medals, 17 of them gold, in several categories. A sad story with mixed feelings before the loss of one life and the arrival of another.
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