Dead Baby Wakes Up Before Funeral
8 August 2009, 4:56 PM. By Daniel Mauser
A premature baby in Paraguay was found to be alive hours later right before he was taken to a funeral wake. The father’s baby Jose Alvarenga discovered that his son was still alive after he heard a cry coming from the box where he was placed.
“I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing,” said the father. “I began to cry.”
The baby has returned to the hospital and is currently in intensive care. The head of the maternal department at the hospital said that the doctor Richard Sotelo failed to check the baby’s vital signs.
Sotelo said he attempted to revive the baby for an hour before pronouncing him dead. The pulse was so low that it was undetectable.
The tiny little thing weighed only 580 grams and the doctors say its a miracle the baby survived.
Below is a picture of the box that contain the baby’s body when it was handed over to his family. Below that is the the death certificate.
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Didn’t check the vital signs? Would think that would be kind of standard before issuing a DC. I’ll bet said doctor checked his “e-mail” though! Seems like the 580 gram baby had more brains than the 100 lb. plus doctor, and knew enough to scream out for precious life. Pitiful. Is nothing sacred anymore? And I mean that.
holy crap! they didn’t check vitals!? ???
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I wonder if they have single-payer health care?
STFU man. Dont drag down this story by adding your damn politics into it.
i think that it was alive but it was messed up thats what i think
A CARDBOARD BOX?? Seriously, a CARD BOARD BOX??
I know! I was surprised to see the box in which they delivered the baby’s “dead” body, but thought I should abstain myself from making that a point in the story. Glad you pointed it out!
Dude, my grandmother told me a story about how she went to funeral when she was like 7 during a Cholera outbreak in Havana. She said at the funeral the stiff sat up in his coffin…still alive. It scarred her so bad she demanded that when she died she be cremated.
That doctor should be fired. They should sue him. What if they had accidently barried him alive? And especiallyin a cardboard box.
My main concern is that vitals were not checked. How do we know that this has not happened before? What is going on with the “Doctor” who announced him dead?
I mean really!!!! I am happy for the family and their blessings, just sorry that they had to go through all of that!
I am shocked to say the least. I am sure money did have something to do with this. I guess the hospital figured a poor family could not afford to pay for all that is need to care for such a small baby. Who are they to decide who lives and who should die. I wonder what damage has been done to this poor little baby by being left unattended all that time. If you didn’t believe in miricales before, I am sure you do now. My prayers go out to this little one and his family. God Bless.