Her mum would have loved her so much: Tearful words of man whose baby was born TWO DAYS after wife died
Two days after Jayne Soliman was declared brain-dead, her grieving husband saw her life-support machine turned off.
In a moment of unbelievable poignancy, he was then given their baby daughter to hold for the first time.
Doctors had kept 41-year-old Mrs Soliman's heart beating after she suffered a brain haemorrhage.
For 48 hours they pumped large doses of steroids into her body to help the baby's lungs develop.
Her mother had been declared brain dead two days before she was born. Now baby Aya Jayne, weighing little over 2lb, is in intensive care
In life, Jayne Campbell Soliman was a British champion ice skater. But two days after being declared brain dead, she became something greater. She became a mother. Soliman suffered a brain hemorrhage but was kept alive by machines before doctors were able to deliver her daughter, Aya Jayne, by Caesarean section, according to The Times of London. Aya is the Muslim word for “miracle.”
“She is so tiny, but she is a little fighter just like her mother,” Mahmoud Soliman, the girl’s father, told The Times
Mrs. Soliman was only 25 weeks pregnant when she complained of a headache and collapsed in her bedroom on Wednesday. Doctors said that she had suffered a haemorrhage caused by an aggressive tumour. After arriving by air to a hospital in Oxford, England, she was declared brain dead. Soliman was given huge doses of steroids to help the unborn child’s lungs to develop. Two days later, Doctors then performed the emergency C-section in hopes of giving her child life. Aya was born weighing less than 2 lb 2 oz. She was transferred to the intensive care unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Soliman was originally told his daughter would have to be there for two weeks but was then doing so well that she was transferred to a local hospital on Saturday — the day of her mother’s funeral.
“A midwife picked tiny Aya up and put her little face up to Jayne’s,” family friend Lucine Phillips told The Times. “It was just like welcoming any new baby into the world … but we also had to say goodbye to Jayne.”
Under her maiden name, Jayne Campbell, Soliman competed in numerous international skating galas during the 1980s. In 1989 she was the British professional champion as well as the No 7 in the world for professional free skating. She also appeared in several international competitions in the 1980’s. She remained involved in the sport, moving to teach figure skating in Dubai, where she met her husband.
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