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| An ice-skating star's baby has been born two days after she collapsed and died from a brain haemorrhage, a hospital has confirmed. | An ice-skating star's baby has been born two days after she collapsed and died from a brain haemorrhage, a hospital has confirmed. |
| Doctors at Oxford's John Radcliffe hospital kept Jayne Soliman's heart beating until they had delivered her baby daughter Aya Jayne on Friday. | Doctors at Oxford's John Radcliffe hospital kept Jayne Soliman's heart beating until they had delivered her baby daughter Aya Jayne on Friday. |
| Baby Aya was born prematurely at 25 weeks by Caesarean section weighing just over 2lb. | |
| She is now being cared for by doctors at Reading's Royal Berkshire Hospital. | |
| The baby's father Mahmoud Soliman, 29, is reported to have said: "It was Jayne's one true wish to be a mum. She would have been a great mum. In the space of 48 hours I have experienced joy at the birth of my child and endured torment over losing my wonderful wife." | |
| Although exceedingly rare, this is not the first time a baby has been kept alive in the womb of a dead mother. | Although exceedingly rare, this is not the first time a baby has been kept alive in the womb of a dead mother. |
| In 1999, a boy was born at Cabuenes hospital in Gijon, northern Spain, on New Year's Eve to a mother who had been clinically dead since mid-November. | In 1999, a boy was born at Cabuenes hospital in Gijon, northern Spain, on New Year's Eve to a mother who had been clinically dead since mid-November. |
| Tragic loss | |
| Ms Soliman, 41 and a former member of the Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club in Southampton, Hants, competed in numerous international galas before taking up free skating professionally. | Ms Soliman, 41 and a former member of the Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club in Southampton, Hants, competed in numerous international galas before taking up free skating professionally. |
| In 1989 she was both British champion and number seven in the world for professional free skating. | In 1989 she was both British champion and number seven in the world for professional free skating. |
| Ms Soliman had been healthy throughout her pregnancy and continued working as a coach at Bracknell Skating Club. She went on the ice last Wednesday before she collapsed at home after complaining of a headache. | |
| She was flown by air ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital, but hours later was declared brain dead. | |
| Doctors believe the skater had suffered from a haemorrhage caused by an aggressive tumour which had struck a major blood vessel. | |
| Ms Soliman was given large doses of steroids to help her baby's lungs develop, and within 48 hours she gave birth to Aya, whose name is a word from the Koran meaning "miracle". | |
| The National Ice Skating Association website pays tribute to Jayne saying she was a long standing and very popular member of the Southampton Ice Dance & Figure Skating Club. | |
| Fellow skater Abbie Baldwin, who was coached by Jayne, said: "It's absolutely devastating. She was the happiest person you could ever wish to meet. | |
| "None of us can wait long enough to tell Aya exactly what her mum was like." |