Birth After Death

A British ice-skater has given birth to a baby two days after dying of a brain hemorrhage. Ice-skating coach Jayne Soliman collapsed and died from a brain hemorrhage but doctors at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading managed to keep her heart beating long enough to deliver Aya Jayne by Caesarean section. Jayne was given big doses of steroids to help the child’s lungs develop and within 48 hours she gave birth to Aya. The kid, born 15 weeks prematurely, was her first child.

The couple married in Abu Dhabi in May 2007 after a brief courtship while Southampton-born Jayne was teaching ice skating in Dubai. She converted to Islam and the couple moved to the UK, setting up home in Berks. Jayne was only 25 weeks pregnant when she collapsed in her bedroom after going to bed complaining of a headache.