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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaby Angel, born 7 weeks after mother declared brain dead, will head home
REBECCA S. GRATZ/THE WORLD-HERALD
Posted: Saturday, June 6, 2015 1:15 am
By Katy Glover / World-Herald staff writer
Inside the neonatal intensive care unit, Berta Jimenez bottle-fed and burped her grandson as he stretched his hand toward her shoulder and settled into her embrace.
Are you full, my heart? she whispered in Spanish.
Doctors at Methodist Womens Hospital expect baby Angel to return home with his grandmother next week after a lengthy stay: Angel was delivered via C-section April 4, almost eight weeks after his mother was declared brain dead.
Karla Perez of Waterloo, Nebraska, had suffered a catastrophic brain bleed when she 22 weeks pregnant. Though she didnt survive, Angel did. Her doctors and family decided to keep Perez on life support so Angel could continue to develop inside her.
Original LBN story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141081836
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Baby Angel, born 7 weeks after mother declared brain dead, will head home (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jun 2015
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jwirr
(39,215 posts)1. And what a beautiful baby he is.
SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)2. Have a good life, Angel.
Rhiannon12866
(207,016 posts)3. What a precious baby!
And such a heartbreaking story! How wonderful to know that he's cared for and loved...
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)4. Amazing story.
Given the loving care given by the grandparents I don't see that Karla would have disagreed with the decision.