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Baby pronounced dead at birth ‘comes back to life’ 3 hours later after being left on chapel’s altar

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A baby girl pronounced dead at birth ‘came  back to life’ three hours later on the altar of a hospital chapel, it was  reported today.

The body of Yasmin Gomes had been placed in a  box and left in the chapel at the hospital in Londrina, south Brazil, by a nurse  who ‘couldn’t face sending her to the morgue’, according to reports.

But when the newborn’s grieving grandmother  arrived with a mortician to pick up her body for burial they were stunned when  the baby suddenly kicked one of her legs, then opened her eyes.

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Shocking: A baby girl pronounced dead at birth ‘came  back to life’ three hours later on the altar of a hospital chapel,  pictured

The baby’s grandmother Elza Silva told Brazil’s Globo G1 website: ‘At first I couldn’t believe it, we couldn’t accept  that it could happen. 

‘Then we saw that she was breathing. We  hugged each other and started to shout, ‘she’s alive, she’s alive’. It was a  miracle.’

Hospital records show Yasmin was born  alive  after a normal birth on Tuesday morning at the Lincoln Graca  hospital, but  stopped breathing immediately after birth.

Doctors unsuccessfully tried to revive the  baby several times but she was finally declared dead at 11am, and a death  certificate issued.

Yasmin’s mother Jenifer da Silva  Gomes, 22,  told Brazils Tanosite website she was the first to be told  that he daughter had  died.

She recalled: ‘My world crashed down right  then. It was the most desperate moment when all my dreams were snatched away.’ 

Nurse Ana Claudia Oliveira, who  accompanied  the birth, said she asked for the baby’s body to be laid in  the hospital  chapel, instead of the normal procedure of being sent to  the refrigerated  morgue.

She said: ‘She’s a little angel, a child. I  just couldn’t face the thought of her being sent down to the morgue.’

She added that she washed and dressed the  dead baby and had no doubt that she was dead.

She said: ‘I can assure you, the  child was  dead. Her pupils didn’t respond to light. All her signs  pointed to the complete  absence of life.

‘I saw it with my own eyes. She was blue all  over, completely dead,’ she said.

Yasmin’s father Cleverson Carlos  Gomes, 26,  said he received the news where he was waiting in the  hospital’s corridor and  went straight to the chapel.

He said: ‘I saw my daughter’s pale, lifeless  body. I couldn’t stay there. I ran out of the chapel in tears.’

Yasmin’s body remained in a box in the chapel  until 2pm, when her grandmother arrived with the owner of a  funeral parlour,  family friend Rosilis Ferro, carrying the baby’s  coffin.

But as soon as they went to pick her up, the  newborn kicked a leg, according to Ms Ferro.

She said: ‘It was an incredibly emotional  moment. I began to shake and I couldn’t speak, I was overwhelmed with  happiness.

‘I called a nurse who at first didn’t believe  it, she told us they were just spasms. But then the baby opened her  eyes.’

Mum Jennifer said she was still being  comforted by family members when a nurse burst into the room and  shouted:  ‘Your daughter’s alive’.

She remembered: ‘At first I had no  reaction,  I didn’t know what to think. Then I started to be sick. But  after that I  couldn’t contain my happiness.’

The baby was rushed to an intensive  care  unit at the nearby Sagrada Familia children’s hospital, where her  condition is  described as stable.

Doctor Aurelio Filipak, who battled to save  Yasmin and signed her death certificate, said: ‘People can make  their own  conclusions, but only those who were there know what really  happened.

‘In 20 years of medicine, I have never  witnessed anything like this.’

He said a team of medics tried to  resussitate the baby for nearly an hour. ‘All the equipment, like the  cardiac  monitor and oximeter, all showed that she was not breathing and  had no heart  beat,’ he added.

Today Yasmin’s family said they plan  to  change her name to include Victoria – ‘victory’ in Portuguese – and  said they  believed her ‘ressurection’ was a miracle.

Jennifer said: ‘There is no explaining miracles. They happen as God wants. If it was his will that our  daughter had  died, we would have accepted it, but he brought her back,  so there must be a  higher purpose in all this.’



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