The child should be born after three weeks. At a time when 32-year-old arrived at the hospital, doctors were unable to find the pulse, her heart had stopped beating.
The child was born by emergency caesarean and a mistimed births was technically "postmortem", because Erica was pronounced dead.
Then came wonder. Erica went to doctors and to their great surprise, found that her heart had started beating again.
Over the next five days, the 32-year-old was in medical induced coma after being diagnosed with a problem that did not know it had: hipertrofike cardiomyopathy, or heart muscle disease, which hinders blood pumping.
The baby was in intensive care for two weeks. Now, both enjoy good health, although Elayna continues to undergo therapy.
Couple confessed Nigrelli exceptional experience in the show "Early Start" to CNN TCH.
After touching history tracking, spouses joked, saying that if ever Elayna out of control, they will simply recall what took her mother to bring to life.