Woman gives birth after 55 days brain

wroclaw - A brain-dead woman is 55 days kept alive to give birth. The Polish woman family wanted at all costs to save the baby. That plan worked: the baby, a boy, it makes for good conditions.

'It was a long fight,' says hospital director Barbara Krolak-by Olejnik
ABC News. The doctors wanted to keep the boy in the abdomen as long as possible to recuperate. 'But there came a day when he was in serious danger. When we pulled him out. '

By cesarean was the baby in the world. He weighed in at 1kg. After three months in intensive care, the boy now weighs 3 kilos. He has no serious health problems, though it is too early for rejoicing. 'We must be patient,' said Krolak-Olejnik.

For the doctors it was exciting. 'The whole family wanted that we were trying to save that child,' says the director. That did it, also ensures the hospital staff for happy faces.

The woman moments after the baby was born, taken from the artificial coma and deceased.