Baby of brain dead woman finally delivered weighing less than 2 pounds

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It’s evil what was done to that poor woman. At one point she was literally rotting just so she could incubate the fetus that little bit longer. He’s finally been born, and he’s so small. They are confident he will make it, but I think they HAVE to say that to justify what they did.

Least she can rest in peace now

There are also some very provocative terms being used — talking about the baby being incubated in her corpse, for example, and a reference to her ‘rotting’ body. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of what happened, that feels deliberately inflammatory to me.

Absolutely this.

It is a desperately sad situation of course but I found myself wondering what the baby’s mum would have wanted and I think she would have wanted him to have the chance of life. If this ever happened to me, I would want my baby to survive, but so very hard on everyone who loves her.

That poor foetus was used as a specimen to explore a theory.

What theory was being explored?

Babies born at 24 weeks gestation have aroud 40%-60% survival not 70%-90%. Most have some degree of developmental delay, cerebral palsy and hearing and vision problems.

I think the gestation was closer to 28 weeks but I may be wrong.

Yes but there's no guarantee of that happening or there being enough to clear the debt if you were say to be leaving some kind of a legal document saying you expect to be kept on life support until your child is born. It's a big thing to expect of family to have to go public looking for money too

Deciding to let your dead body be artificially reanimated to enable a 9 week old foetus gestate to a point it can be removed and probably survive, but in what state who knows, is the worse possible start any mother could give to a human being. I can’t understand why people are romanticising it on this thread as like ‘the ultimate motherly sacrifice’ or something.

. I can’t understand why people are romanticising it on this thread as like ‘the ultimate motherly sacrifice’ or something.

Which people are “romanticising” it in this way?

A couple of posters have expressed the (very human) thought that they would want to do anything for their baby. But no one has used anything like the words that you have put in quotes.

Poor kid. What chance does he have of a normal development

I would have agreed with you until the police discussed using women’s period apps to investigate still births and miscarriages, and the number of prosecutions has soared in the last few years.

Poor baby, poor woman. The whole situation is so grotesque.

Blimey!

Hopefully the law change currently going through will put paid to that.

Yes I’m aware of bed sores, I know they can get bad but actually people can be put on vibrating mattresses and turned so they don’t get them. Otherwise every bed bound human would have them and they don’t. A bit much to call bed sores “rotting” would they use that term of their elderly but very much alive relative has one?

@SP2024 i don’t think you meant to quote me

Apart from anything else, nobody. has any idea what the impact will be on the baby of spending all that time in a completely stimulus free environment. It’s heartbreakingly shocking.

Survival isn’t quality of life. The baby is very likely to have some serious problems. It’s bonkers.

If you could grow a baby in a dead body for a significant amount of time

What worries me is how the headaches weren't picked up - surely they would have been horrific.

Baby wasn't born at 24 weeks.

25 weeks. It’s hardly much better.

It's been done loads of times, and for longer. It's not some untested theory. The difference here is that it was started earlier, and was without the consent of the NOK.

The mum was beating dead, but her body was being kept alive. Baby was not growing inside a 'rotting corpse'.

No, this wasn’t a science experiment. No one was testing a theory, though the treatment regime may be written up in due course.

It came about because of fear of breaking Georgia’s restrictive abortion laws.

I think people, don’t seem to understand the implications of being brain dead.

Your brain regulates all your bodily functions. Without it you can be artificially ventilated for a time but this isn’t going to compensate for the lack of brain activity; Keeping an early gestation foetus alive in this way is an act of cruelty to the foetus and complete disregard of the mother’s dignity and wishes.

People don’t mean bedsores when they mention Adriana ‘rotting’. They mean decomposition. Internal organs failing and shutting down etc. She was completely brain dead, her brain wasn’t controlling any bodily function, it was decomposing.