A champion ice skater in the UK has given birth two days after suffering a fatal brain haemorrhage.
Jayne Soliman, 41, was declared brain-dead but kept alive long enough for doctors to deliver her daughter Aya Jayne by caesarian section.
Ms Soliman, an ice skater who had competed on an international level, was earlier pumped full of steroids to allow the baby’s lungs to develop.
Best friend and fellow skater David Phillips said having a baby was the "one thing" Ms Soliman wanted from life.
"She was so happy, she had always wanted to be a mum more than anything else," British newspaper quoted him as saying.
"The hospital laid her baby on her shoulder when she was born so she could have a moment with her. This would have been the best day of her life."
Ms Soliman collapsed suddenly in her home at Bracknell, west of London, following a massive haemorrhage caused by a brain tumour striking a major blood vessel.
She was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where doctors later informed her distraught husband she was brain-dead.
Mr Phillips said Mr Soliman had experienced "the best and the worst day of his life".
"It's just something you can't conceive — turning off your wife's life support machine and then going to see your newborn daughter," he said.
Mr Phillips said Ms Soliman had shown no signs of discomfort when the pair went ice skating earlier in the day.
She had no idea she had a brain tumour.
Ms Soliman was a veteran free skater who won the British championships in 1989 and had been ranked number seven in the world.
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