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US mom gave birth to child after her heart stopped and then came back to life

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ANI New York

A women from Texas, who died technically when her heart stopped beating, gave birth to her daughter then came back to life again on her own.

It all happened, when 32-year-old teacher Erica Nigrelli collapsed in her Missouri City classroom last February.

Her husband, Nathan, a teacher at the same school, found that his wife was having a seizure.

After call to the 911, paramedics reached the place quickly and took her to the hospital but by that time Erica's heart had stopped beating.

According to CNN's KPRC, the couple's daughter Elayna was born via emergency C-section in a post-mortem birth but moments later her mother's heart started beating again, the New York Daily News reported.

 

Erica, who was kept in a medically induced coma for five days, suffers from a heart defect called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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First Published: May 25 2013 | 12:39 PM IST

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