Posted on 10/04/2005 3:00:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Daphne Cruz left the hospital Monday, less than three weeks after doctors pulled her from her dying mother's womb after a freak accident in Oakland.
Daphne was born by emergency cesarean section on Sept. 15, the day her mother, Adriana Cruz, 32, died after being crushed against a wall by her sport utility vehicle in the city's Fruitvale district.
Although doctors at Highland Hospital in Oakland had to perform CPR on the full-term baby after her birth, she didn't suffer any trauma, authorities said as they marveled how a new life emerged from a mother's tragic death.
On Monday, Daphne, swaddled in a blanket and sucking on a pacifier, was wheeled into a crowded news conference at Children's Hospital Oakland, where she yawned and fidgeted as her sister, Cecilia, 10, held and kissed her.
"It is a miracle after what happened," Daphne's father, Ricardo Cruz, 33, said through an interpreter. "She looks very much like my wife. That's what we all think."
Cruz, a construction worker, said it was a bittersweet moment for him and his family. "I'm very sad inside," he said, "but on the other hand I'm very happy because she left us with this beauty."
The little girl is named after a Scooby Doo character, he said. Her middle name, Adriana, is in honor of her mother.
Oakland police said Adriana Cruz was getting into her Ford Explorer, which was parked on an incline in the lot of an apartment building at 2545 26th Ave., when she was crushed. Cruz apparently had a habit of releasing the parking brake before getting into her car so she would have more room for her growing frame, authorities said.
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The Circle of Life is sometimes very bittersweet.
Precious!
MM
Your were expecting "Sweet Poly Purebred?"
I wonder if her big brother had a larger vote on name choices due to circumstances.
Possible that.
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