Christine Bolden gave birth to twin boys weeks after she was declared brain dead. Picture: WOODTV8, USA Source: The Daily Telegraph
- Christine Bolden suffers fatal brain aneurysm
- Declared brain dead, still pregnant with twins
- "Once the babies were born, that was the end of her"
A WOMAN who suffered a fatal brain aneurysm has given birth to twin boys at a Michigan hospital - weeks after she was declared officially brain dead.
Christine Bolden, 26, who had been happy and healthy only moments before the tragic March incident, suddenly got a horrible pain and fell to the ground.
Two aneurysms, hidden since her birth, had finally burst.
Doctors declared her brain dead, but she was miraculously able to carry her twins Alexander and Nicholas to 25 weeks and deliver them on April 17.
Danielle Bolden, Christine's aunt, told how difficult it was to keep her niece on life support in a desperate attempt to save her children."It's hard," she said. "Real hard." She said Christine was walking with her boyfriend and three-year-old son when she fell to the ground on March 6. They said she looked like she was just in a deep sleep and couldn't fathom how dire the situation really was.
"I guess she had a pain in her head," Ms Bolden said. "We didn't think it was as bad as it was."
Ms Bolden said doctors told the family the two aneurysms that took Christine's life were present from birth and that the stress of pregnancy may have exacerbated them.
After she was declared brain dead, the family began the grieving process. They even printed an official obituary. But they refused to give up, hoping she would somehow survive to see her little boys.
After weeks of watching Christine languish in the hospital bed, her increasingly high blood pressure became a danger to the babies, and the family had to make a tough call: Christine or the twins.
They made the difficult decision to take her off life support in order to try and save the boys.
Doctors performed her C-section without anesthesia at the family's request, in the hopes the pain might rouse their sleeping Christine.
Alexander and Nicholas entered the world via C-section just as their mother left it. Ms Bolden thought that Christine held on to life until the last possible moment to ensure the safety of her twins.
"Once the babies were born, that was the end of her," she said.
Hospital officials said the boys were in fragile condition.
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