Baby girl pronounced dead at birth 'comes back to life' three hours later after being left on hospital chapel’s altar

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.

 

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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