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Offline thundley4

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'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« on: December 30, 2009, 09:53:00 AM »
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Doctors Perform C-Section On Then-Dead Mother, Mother Recovers After Birth, Docs Resuscitate Baby

In what is being hailed as a Christmas "miracle," a young mother died during labor with a still-born baby on Christmas Eve but both mom and baby came back to life just minutes later, before the eyes of the nearly heartbroken, stunned father

"Half of my family was lying there right in front of me -- there's no other way to say it -- dead," Mike Hermanstorfer told ABC News' Colorado affiliate KRDO. "I lost all feeling. Once her heartbeat stopped, I felt like mine did too."

Hermanstorfer's wife, Tracey, had suffered cardiac arrest while she was in labor at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs.

"They were getting ready to put a catheter in and I closed my eyes and don't remember anything after that," Tracey said.

She had no pulse, no heartbeat, was not breathing and was turning "gray," Dr. Stephanie Martin, director of maternal fetal medicine at Colorado's Memorial Hospital, told CBS News' Colorado affiliate KKTV. "She was dead."
Christmas miracle

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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 10:04:38 AM »
What a lovely story.  Thank you for posting that!
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 11:03:40 AM »
And under the glorious "Obamacare" TM, they would have STAYED dead.
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 11:19:32 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on December 30, 2009, 11:03:40 AM
And under the glorious "Obamacare" TM, they would have STAYED dead.

Well, you wouldn't want that guy (the father) "punished with a baby" - or a nagging wife for that matter... [/BigBrotha mode]
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2009, 01:46:57 PM »
That's where I gave birth to both my boys...great hospital!

Great story!
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2009, 02:12:07 PM »
Awwwwww that was incredible! :bawl:
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2009, 02:19:39 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on December 30, 2009, 11:03:40 AM
And under the glorious "Obamacare" TM, they would have STAYED dead.

Indeed - they probably would have been parted out for, well, for spare parts, under Obamacare in the time it took to revive them under responsible medicine (i.e., that which is not Obamacare).
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2009, 02:25:41 PM »
Like my own experience....no, I wasn't actually dead because I'd still be dead....these folks were on the edge....and came back to solid ground.  God Bless this family.
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2009, 03:55:39 PM »
What a true Christmas miracle
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Re: 'Miracle' Mom and Baby 'Dead' in Labor, Revived
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2009, 04:02:00 PM »
A great Christmas miracle.... a big virtual thank you to the doctor and team that saved both of their lives.  That's quite a story.

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