Just 10 hours after being pronounced dead, a little girl now-named named Milagros ("miracles" in Spanish) was found alive and crying after her body was sent to a morgue in Quibdo in the Pacific state of Choco, Colombia, the New York Daily News reports.
Milagros' mother, Jenny Hurtado, gave birth the morning of Nov. 13 at just 27-weeks pregnant after being rushed to St. Francis hospital at 2:45 a.m. After doctors performed an emergency C-section, they were unable to find signs of life in her newborn and declared the baby dead just 35 minutes after she had been born at 3:20 a.m.
The baby's body was placed in a box and taken to the morgue until her father could come collect her, but when he arrived seven hours later at noon, heard faint crying and realized that she was still alive. Milagros was rushed via plane to the Santa Teresita del Niño Jesus clinic in Bogota, where she is currently in intensive care receiving treatment for underdeveloped lungs under the watch of her aunt, Reyes Hines.
Hurtado remains at the hospital in Quibdo, still recovering from the traumatic ordeal.
"In some cases the heart movements are not perceptible even though the newborn is alive, they can declare it dead," Specialist doctor Javier Zagarra told Colombian news source Semana. "When they wrap the baby in a sheet, upon receiving warmth, the baby can then revitalize."
