A baby born after his mother was struck by lightning in Florida when she was nine months pregnant has died.
A baby born after his mother was struck by lightning in Florida when she was nine months pregnant has died.
Owen Davidson passed away on July 13, two weeks after Meghan Davidson was struck in the head while walking in her Fort Myers neighborhood.
The Lee County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the death, the fourth in Florida this year related to lightning.
Davidson has been released from the hospital and is recovering. She was just seven days from her due date when she was struck.
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The person who called 911 said she could not tell if Meghan was breathing, according to the Palm Beach Post .
“We do not know how the fetus is affected by lightning, but we have a special case here in that the child’s injury may not have been from lightning, but from a lack of oxygen as the mother was in cardiac arrest, ” Mary Ann Cooper, a doctor who handles lightning-related injuries, told the newspaper earlier this month.
“It depends on how long the mother was in cardiac arrest and how long it took to deliver the child.”
Davidson, 26, was outside her home when she was struck on June 29. She initially was unresponsive, but emergency medical technicians were able to get a pulse back.
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