Baby Born to ‘Dead’ Mother Goes Home
Michele Odette Poole, born 53 days after her mother was declared brain-dead, was discharged from the hospital Thursday, with her father declaring that he is the “happiest man in the world” but “not looking forward to those 3 o’clock wake-up calls.”
Michele was born by Caesarean section on July 30--three weeks premature--weighing 4 pounds, 5 ounces. She was four ounces heavier upon her release from Kaiser Permanente Hospital.
“Wherever Odette is now, I’m sure she is smiling down on this day,” Dennis Poole, the father, said of the mother.
Marie Odette Henderson, a San Francisco elementary school teacher, was declared brain-dead because of a tumor on June 7.
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