Image caption The boy was healthy at birth, doctors say (file picture) 
 
 A baby was born in Portugal to a woman who had been brain-dead for almost four months, hospital officials say. 
 
 The boy was delivered in a Lisbon hospital by Caesarean section after 32 weeks, and weighed 2.35kg (5lb, 3oz). 
 
 His mother was declared brain-dead on 20 February after a brain haemorrhage. 
 
 The decision to continue with the pregnancy was taken after tests revealed the foetus to be healthy, and after the father agreed it should be allowed to continue. 
 
 Doctors said the baby was in good health when he was born on Tuesday. They did not specify whether the boy's mother remained on life support. 
 
 It is the longest a child has survived in the womb in Portugal after his mother was declared brain-dead. 
 
 In January, a baby boy was born in Wroclaw, Poland, after surviving for 55 days in the womb of his mother, who was declared brain-dead after a tumour. 
 
 He weighed only 1kg (2.2lbs) at birth, and was allowed home in April. 

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 A baby has been born in Portugal almost four months after his mother was declared brain-dead. 
 
 
 
 The boy, who weighed 5lb 3oz (2.4kg), was delivered by caesarean section at Lisbon’s São José hospital at 32 weeks, after his mother, 37, suffered a brain haemorrhage on 20 February. 
 
 
 
 The decision to continue with the pregnancy was made in consultation with the father. 
 
 
 
 “The foetus appeared to be in good health,” the hospital said in a statement. “The decision was taken with the family to follow through with the pregnancy.” 
 
 
 
 Luis Graça, head of the Portuguese Society of Obstetricians, said the birth was “an extraordinary feat”. 
 
 
 
 It is the longest a child has survived in the womb in Portugal after a mother has been declared brain-dead. 
 
 
 
 In January a baby boy was born in Wroclaw, Poland, after surviving for 55 days in the womb after his mother was declared brain-dead having had a tumour. The baby weighed 2.2lb (1kg). He was allowed home in April. 
 
 
 
 In 2001 a mother in Warsaw, Kentucky, who had been in a coma for eight months following a car crash, gave birth to a healthy daughter born full-term. 
 
 
 
 Last year in the UK, Colvina Jolin, 28, from Horndean, Hampshire, was in a coma for three months after suffering a brain haemorrhage, and came round to discover that her baby daughter Maia had been delivered by caesarian six weeks earlier. 
 
 
 
 And in the US a woman who had been in a coma for 10 years following a car accident was discovered to be pregnant after being raped in the nursing home where she was being cared for. She later gave birth to a boy.
– When a pregnant woman was declared brain-dead after a brain hemorrhage in Portugal in February, the hospital determined her fetus to be alive and well and the father decided to try to keep his wife on life support long enough to allow for at least the possibility of the baby's survival. Now, nearly four months after the woman was declared brain-dead, obstetricians have delivered a healthy baby boy at 32 weeks, who weighs 5 pounds and 3 ounces, reports the Guardian. The birth, which required months of careful medical intervention, has been called "an extraordinary feat" by the head of the Portuguese Society of Obstetricians. Doctors have yet to reveal whether the mother is still on life support, per the BBC, but it's the longest a fetus has survived in the womb in Portugal to a mother declared brain-dead. The feat isn't without precedent: In 2001, a woman in Kentucky gave birth to a healthy full-term daughter eight months after a car crash left her in a coma, and in 2015 a woman in the UK was in a coma for three months following a brain hemorrhage when she woke up to learn that her healthy baby daughter had been delivered six weeks prior. And earlier this year, a baby boy was born in Poland to a woman who'd been declared brain-dead of brain cancer 55 days earlier. He was born at 26 weeks, weighing just over two pounds, and his mother was taken off life support soon after.