A baby girl who was pronounced dead at birth came back to life three hours later on the altar of a hospital chapel.
According to reports,the body of Yasmin Gomes had been placed in a box and left in the chapel at the hospital in Londrina, south Brazil, by a nurse who couldn't face sending her to the morgue.
Yasmin's body remained in a box in the chapel until 2pm, when her grandmother arrived with the owner of a funeral parlour, Rosilis Ferro, carrying the baby's coffin.
But as soon as they went to pick her up, the newborn kicked a leg, according to Ms Ferro.
The baby's grandmother said, "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."
Hospital records show Yasmin was born alive after a normal birth on Tuesday morning at the Lincoln Graca hospital, but stopped breathing immediately after birth. Doctors unsuccessfully tried to revive the baby several times but she was finally declared dead at 11am, and a death certificate issued.
Jenifer da Silva Gomes, 22, mother of the baby said she was the first to be told that her daughter had died.
According to the nurse, Ana Claudia Oliveira, who accompanied the birth, she had no doubt the baby was dead as her pupils didn't respond to light and all her signs pointed to complete absence of life.
"I saw it with my own eyes. She was blue all over, completely dead," she said.
Mum Jennifer said she was still being comforted by family members when a nurse burst into the room and shouted: "Your daughter's alive".
She remembered: "At first I had no reaction, I didn't know what to think. Then I started to be sick. But after that I couldn't contain my happiness."
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