Woman Wakes From Coma to Her Newborn Baby
Source: Associated Press; March 14, 2001

Dallas, TX -- An 18-year-old woman regained consciousness after giving
birth to a healthy girl while in a coma induced by a car accident. Shannon
Kranzberg gave birth on Jan. 14 after a Staph infection apparently
triggered labor. She had been in a coma for two months.

``I just woke up and the baby was there,'' she told The Dallas Morning
News.

Doctors say it's rare for a woman in a coma to give birth, especially by
natural delivery. Kranzberg was expected to be released from the Baylor
Institute for Rehabilitation on Thursday to join her husband and
2-month-old daughter, Alexis. She still has some weakness on her left side
that makes it hard to hold the baby.

Kranzberg was in labor for 10 hours. The baby was about two months
premature, and weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces.

Michael Kranzberg had thought his daughter would never be born and his
wife might never regain consciousness. He fainted in the delivery room.

``She's my hero,'' he said of his wife. ``I just want to say to people who
are in our position that you've just got to keep the faith,'' he said.