Brain dead mom gives live birth in Hungary

A healthy baby boy was born in eastern Hungary after his brain dead mother was kept alive for about three months to bring him to term, a hospital said on Wednesday ‘The baby is already growing up at home, with his family. He was delivered by caesarean during the summer,’ Bela Furedi, president of the Debrecen University’s medical science centre, said. ‘He was born in the 27th week of pregnancy. He weighed only 1.42 kilos but was healthy.’ The 31-year-old woman was declared brain dead after a brain haemorrhage in her 15th week of pregnancy.