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08-24-2008, 10:30 AM
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Baby lives hours after being pronounced dead
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...23405020080823
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.
The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.
"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.
The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.
"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.
The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.
Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.
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08-24-2008, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Cumbria, United Kingdom
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Wow!
I take it that must have worked a little like, you know, when people get shot, you put them in a freezer; and they can live.
Bet the parents got a surprise....
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08-24-2008, 01:18 PM
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And people don't believe in miracles...
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08-24-2008, 02:52 PM
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She was pronounced dead (again) though. Sad. I thought she was meant to live.
brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/premature-baby-comes-to-life-
after-six-hours-in-morgue/2008/08/19/1218911628409.html
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08-24-2008, 02:56 PM
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Oh, that's shit.
She might come to life again 
..... maybe 
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'The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.' - Salvador Dali
Pie Jesu domine..... Donna eis requiem - *thwack*
'To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.' - Giorgio de Chirico
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08-24-2008, 03:25 PM
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awww poor little girl. But I really don't understand though how she could die and come back to life....?
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08-24-2008, 06:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Sad news to hear.
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08-25-2008, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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It's possible she was so barely alive that it didn't register as being alive to the doctors equipment, and then the cold might have indeed slowed the baby's metabolism enough to help her live.
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Originally Posted by Geoluhread
And people don't believe in miracles...
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Some of us like using critical thinking and logic to understand the unknown instead of jumping to superstitions and archaic beliefs. But whatever floats your boat.
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08-25-2008, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoluhread
And people don't believe in miracles...
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Originally Posted by Strīcan
She was pronounced dead (again) though. Sad. I thought she was meant to live.
brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/premature-baby-comes-to-life-
after-six-hours-in-morgue/2008/08/19/1218911628409.html
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I'm sorry, you were saying?
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08-26-2008, 02:11 PM
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Location: Australia
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One of my friends from school has a twin brother who was pronounced dead upon birth, but he re-animated afterwards I suppose, I've met him, though apparently it did some sort of brain damage, and he has a very hard time fitting in and learning etc.
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08-26-2008, 02:23 PM
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Location: Show Low, AZ
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My mother hung my from a changing-station strap and tried fleeing the scene. I was pronounced dead. Sometime during the ambulance ride after my mother was located, I started crying. ^^''
I have no existing brain damage to my knowledge. :3 I tried researching how one goes about retrieving a death certificate, but it seems my refusal to remain deceased kept such form from being filed in any records...
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08-26-2008, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
I'm sorry, you were saying?
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That I thought the girl was going to live longer than she did.
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08-26-2008, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Strīcan
That I thought the girl was going to live longer than she did.
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Wasn't directed at you.
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08-26-2008, 06:58 PM
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Oh, sorry for ruining that. I tend to be slow at times.
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08-26-2008, 07:19 PM
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That's going to be in my list of my Ophelia's Top 5 Remarks!!!
Chairman LMAO can't hold a candle to that post.
(though it was merely a coincidental irony)
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People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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08-26-2008, 07:45 PM
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I've said five interesting or funny things?
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08-27-2008, 07:06 AM
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umm....yeah....it's called a MEDICAL ERROR. Douchebags.
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08-27-2008, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
Some of us like using critical thinking and logic to understand the unknown instead of jumping to superstitions and archaic beliefs. But whatever floats your boat.
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Ahhh, that made my morning. 
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08-27-2008, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
I'm sorry, you were saying?
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... I love you. That cracked me up.
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08-28-2008, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
Some of us like using critical thinking and logic to understand the unknown instead of jumping to superstitions and archaic beliefs. But whatever floats your boat.
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Joker beat me to it. There are no miracles, just as of yet unexplained phenomenon.
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08-28-2008, 12:01 PM
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Aww, poor baby girl!
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03-31-2009, 01:55 AM
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I'm thinking of Dead Alive and I shouldn't be.
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03-31-2009, 02:51 AM
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Zombie baby.
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03-31-2009, 04:01 AM
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Location: All in your mind and things.
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Jesus got to the whole dying-for-our-sins thing a little earlier this time around.
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03-31-2009, 04:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Luxembourg
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G.net threads, Now with 50% more dead baby action!!!
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