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11th July 2017
04:58pm BST

"Frankielen was a generous and loving person. I believe God chose her for this purpose so a miracle could happen."The 24-year-old, who had been with his wife for six years, said that she regularly appeared to him after her death whenever he was despairing.
"One night she sat on my bed and said: 'Baby I can't come back to you anymore. I must stay. I am in a beautiful place now. You've got a big mission still to complete. You have to look after our children and you have to be strong and move on and live your life'."https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/884721946063253504 Staff in the Nosso Senhora do Rocio hospital regularly sang and talked to the twins while they were still in the womb. They also hung pictures of their mother around the bed where she lay. The hospital's head of neurological ICU, Dr Dalton Rivabem, told the Daily Mail that they sought help from a doctor in Portugal to keep the babies alive.
"Frankielen's organs were all intact and working as if she was still with us. We took the decision to keep her alive to save her unborn children. And every day we watched them grow normally." "There have been other cases, but ours is the longest one with 123 days - four months."
The twins, Ana Vitoria and Asaph, were kept in incubators for three months and are now being looked after by their grandmother.Explore more on these topics: