A real miracle of birth – this is how doctors from Naples say about the birth of a girl whose mother has been in a coma for 4 months after being shot with a firearm. It is even believed that due to the length of pregnancy in this state, it is a record case in the world.
When Carolina Sepe, a 25-year-old resident of Pignano in southern Italy, was severely wounded in the head in August as a result of a close-range firearm, she was 15 weeks pregnant.
The shots were fired by her entire family by a neighbor, and the reason for the argument was a car crash. As a result of the shooting, the father of a woman whose brain, according to doctors, does not function anymore and does not give hope for improvement, died then.
117 days passed from the shooting to the birth of the baby. For so long, doctors from the Neapolitan Cardarelia Hospital have managed to keep the woman pregnant.
The girl, whose father named Maria, was born on December 19, seven months pregnant. It weighs 1,9 kilograms. Doctors admitted that during the four months of her fetal life, the girl, due to her mother’s condition, underwent hundreds of examinations and was subjected to complex therapies all the time. The caesarean section was speeded up so that the baby would no longer need to take the medications that were given to her mother all the time.
The child’s condition is defined as good. It was developing normally all the time. “This is an extraordinary, extraordinary result,” said neonatologists in Naples. It is emphasized that this is the first time in the world that a child is born whose mother was in a coma for most of her pregnancy.
The Italian media cites cases described by the world’s medical literature. According to these data, the previous record for keeping a pregnancy comatose is 107 days. In Hungary this year the pregnant woman was also in a coma from the 15th week, like Maria’s mother, but her baby was born after 90 days.
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