A “MIRACLE baby” has been delivered 107 days after his mother was declared brain dead by doctors in Portugal.

    Sandra Pedro, 37, arrived at a hospital in Lisbon on Feb. 20 with a terrible headache. A few hours later she was pronounced brain dead after suffering a stroke.

    She was 17 weeks pregnant at the time and it was initially thought the baby had also died.

    But when doctors in the intensive care unit found signs of life they decided to keep her body alive and see if they could deliver the baby alive.

    Sandra was effectively kept alive as a “living incubator.”

    She had tubes to feed her, keep her breathing and supply essential hormones.

    Nurses and doctors watched in amazement over the next 15 weeks as Sandra’s belly and breasts grew as they nurtured the child inside her.

    But staff at Lisbon’s San Jose Hospital also cuddled her belly, massaged it, whispered to baby Lourenco and even sang songs and nursery rhymes in a bid to replicate the love he would have got from his mother.

    Nurse Nuno Camilo said, “He liked the singing best, that’s when he moved the most. She was in a room on her own so we sang songs from our own childhood.

    “We would cuddle the tummy to feel the baby moving and stimulate him.”

    When baby Lourenco finally arrived alive and weighing in at a healthy 2.27 kg June 7, cheers erupted from the staff.

    Dr. Susana Alfonso, 40, who delivered the baby, said, “It was a surprise because she was dead and normally when the mother dies the baby dies also.”

    (SD-Agencies)