A woman who “gave birth” to her baby ten days after she died has left her family devastated and the local community shocked and baffled.
Staff at the funeral parlor discovered the stillborn child next to the mother the day before her burial.
“I was devastated by the untimely death of my daughter and now I got the shock of my life to learn that she has given birth while she had been dead for 10 days. What is that?” Nomveliso’s mother, 76-year-old Mandzala Mdoyi said.
The newspaper reported that the stillborn infant and mother were buried together on Saturday, Jan. 13 in a big coffin.
Owner of the funeral parlor, Fundile Makalana was left deeply upset by the discovery.
“We were so shocked and frightened that we did not even have time to look at the sex of the baby,” he said. “I have been in the business for more than 20 years and I have never heard of a dead woman giving birth.”
Medical experts told local media that a foetus can be expelled from a mother’s body from a build of gases, that is known as “coffin birth” or by the medical term, “post mortem foetal extrusion.”
In a case that was more fortunate for the child in 2009, doctors helped a mother who was declared clinically dead deliver a healthy daughter.
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