Brain Dead Woman Gives Birth To Baby Boy

WOW! This story is heartbreaking.

22 year-old Karla Perez suffered from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, making her pregnancy very painful as it required her to give up medications for the disease.

3 years ago she had given birth to a healthy baby girl, so doctors were confident her disease wouldn't cause any complications this time around.

Perez came down with a severe headache on February 8 and thought a nap would help ease the pain. She woke up feeling no better and soon lost consciousness.

When she was taken to hospital doctors discovered she had an intracranial hemorrhage and there was nothing they could do nothing to save the organ.

Her family asked for her to be put on life support and to maintain the pregnancy for as long as they could.

Doctors believed the baby would be OK as long as they kept Perez alive for at least 24 weeks into her pregnancy. Her deterioration didn’t begin until she was 30 weeks pregnant, which Dr. Lovgren called “fairly impressive.”

A Caesarean section was performed on April 4. Perez gave birth to a boy named Angel who weighed 2 pounds, 12.6 ounces. Unfortunately, she died two days later.

Angel has since remained in the neonatal intensive care unit and is currently being fed through a tube.

His condition is described as stable, but he will be in intensive care for another month.

Brady Kerr, who works in the NICU, said "He wouldn’t have done this well if we weren’t able to prolong Karla’s pregnancy to the point where the rest of his organs had time to mature and develop, specifically the lungs. Right now we have hope and reason to be cautiously optimistic because we don’t have any signs of complications". 

- Elitedaily