Brazilian doctors made an incredible breakthrough in medicine.
21-year-old Franklin de Silva Zampoli Padilla suffered a stroke in October 2016. At that moment, the woman was 9 weeks pregnant and expecting twins.
Although Franklin’s brain had stopped working, both embryos had beating hearts in the womb, so doctors decided to give them another chance at life.
Dr. Dalton Rivaben says: “When we did the ultrasound, we thought the embryos would be dead, but to our surprise they were fighting for life. Although the girl’s brain was dead, her other internal organs continued to function normally, so we made the decision to keep her alive.”
The hospital staff did everything to make Franklin’s pregnancy as normal as possible – the ward where the girl lay was decorated with her photos, nurses and doctors sang to the children, watched the growing belly, talked to the twins so that they could feel maternal love.
For 4 months, the children were developing in Franklin’s womb. On February 19, 2017, siblings, Asaf and Anna, were born to the world by caesarean section.
