Dead baby laid on chapel altar comes back to life

A baby girl who was pronounced dead just after birth and  carried  into the  hospital chapel by a nurse who was too sad to send her  to the  morgue, made  what could be called a most miraculous recovery —  she  “came back to life,”  witnesses said.

A nurse had put the body of baby Yasmin  Gome, born in Brazil,  in a  small box and  left it on the altar in the chapel, The Sun reported.  The  baby’s grandmother  and a mortician came to retrieve the body about   three hours later, but they  got the shock of their lives when the baby   suddenly kicked her leg and opened  her eyes, The Sun said.

The grandmother, Elza Silva, said in the  report: “At first, I   couldn’t believe it. We couldn’t accept that it could  happen. Then we   saw that she was breathing. We hugged each other and started  to shout,   ‘She’s alive, she’s alive.’ It was a miracle.”

The baby was born alive but stopped breathing and died  moments  later,  hospital records stated. Doctors tried to revive her but   couldn’t. The mother,  Jenifer da Silva Gomes, 22, said  she was   devastated when she learned of the doctors’ failure.

“My world crashed down right then,” she said, as The Sun reported.  “It  was  the most desperate moment when all my dreams were snatched  away.”

The nurse who carried away the body said the little girl’s body  had  even  turned blue. But three hours later, the little girl was alive  and  well, rated  in stable condition by amazed doctors.

“In 20 years of medicine, I have never witnessed anything like this,” a  doctor said in The Sun.

Family members, meanwhile, are rejoicing. They’re also planning  to  change  the girl’s name to Victoria, which means “victory” in   Portuguese.

The mother said in The Sun article: “There is no explaining miracles.  They   happen as God wants. If it was his will that our daughter had died,  we  would  have accepted it, but he brought her back, so there must be a   higher purpose  in all this.”