Woman Awakens From Coma to See Newborn Daughter.(Brief Article)

Shannon Kranzberg became the latest woman to successfully deliver a baby while in a coma. The 18-year-old Mrs. Kranzberg delivered her daughter Alexis on January 14, then snapped out of her coma a week later.

"I just woke up and the baby was there," she told the Dallas Morning News. The delivery, two months' premature, evidently was triggered by a staph infection.

According to the Morning News, the "miracle" didn't end with the natural delivery of Alexis after Mrs. Kranzberg had been in a coma following a November 16 car crash. Mrs. Kranzberg was scheduled to go home from the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation March 16.

"I think that her prognosis is very good, given the severity of her injury," Dr. Mary Carlisle, Mrs. Kranzberg's doctor and the medical director of traumatic brain injury at the institute, told the Morning News. "It would be impossible to tell what the final outcome would be, but even recently she's continued to show remarkable progress."

Michael Kranzberg said of his wife, "She's my hero," adding, "She's just awesome."

For his part, when Alexis was born, Mr. Kranzberg fainted. Alexis, who now tips the scales at over eight pounds, weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces when she was born premature at Methodist Medical Center.

Dr. Carlisle said she had already seen another similar case this year.