Baby Found Alive In Chapel 3 Hours After Hospital Declared her Dead

A Brazilian newborn, declared dead shortly after birth by doctors, was found breathing three hours later..

According to media reports, baby Yasmin Gomes died shortly after birth in the Lincoln Graca hospital Tuesday morning. A nurse who "couldn't face sending her to the morgue," placed the newborn in a small box in the chapel at the hospital in Londrina, South Brazil.  Three hours later when the baby's grandmother came to collect her body, she was surprised to find the girl alive,  Mirror reported.

"At first I couldn't believe it, we couldn't accept that it could happen," Elza Silva told website Globo G1. She noticed the baby kicking her leg. "Then we saw that she was breathing. We hugged each other and started to shout, 'she's alive, she's alive'. It was a miracle."

The nurse Ana Claudia Oliveira, who placed the baby in the chapel, cannot believe that the baby has come back to life again.

"I can assure you, the child was dead. Her pupils didn't respond to light. All her signs pointed to the complete absence of life," Oliveira, told Daily Mail. "I saw it with my own eyes. She was blue all over, completely dead."

Doctors who attended Yasmin said it was one of the rarest incidents they had come across in their medical life. "People can make their own conclusions, but only those who were there know what really happened," Doctor Aurelio Filipak, said. "In 20 years of medicine, I have never witnessed anything like this."

The incident has inspired Yasmin's parents to modify their baby girl's name by adding Victoria (which means victory in Portuguese) to it.

Yasmin is not the first miracle baby to come back to life after being pronounced dead by doctors.  Last year, an Argentinean newborn named Luz Milagros was found alive 12 hours after the hospital declared her dead and shifted her to a morgue. However, in June this year, she died at the Hospital Provincial in Rosario, Argentina, after suffering a cardiac arrest.