“Miracle” Twins Are Born After Brain-Dead Mum Was Kept Alive On Life Support For 123 Days

Twins have been born to a brain dead woman who was kept alive on life support for four months in a tragic case that has made medical history.

Doctors successfully delivered the baby boy and girl by emergency caesarean section in a “miracle” birth, but their mum died following the procedure.

She was kept alive for 123 days – the longest period ever – after suffering a stroke while nine weeks pregnant.

Her husband has told how doctors made the ground-breaking decision to put her on life support and save the embryos after their tiny hearts continued to beat in her womb.

Dad Muriel Padilha, 24, said the babies were born to his wife, Frankielen da Silva Zampoli Padilha, 21, at seven months’ gestation in February this year and discharged from hospital at the end of May.

The bereft husband, who was heartbroken by the loss his wife but overjoyed with the birth of Asaph and Anna Vitoria, described his children’s birth as a miracle.

The babies’ fight for life reduced doctors at the Nosso Senhora do Rocio hospital in Campo Largo, Brazil, to tears as they decorated the space around Frankielen’s bed with her pictures.

They also took turns singing to the unborn babies as they caressed her belly and talking to the growing foetuses in a bid to substitute the mother’s love.