Photo ~ Argentinians Fabian Veron and Anallia Bouguet, parents of a premature baby who had been declared dead and was found alive 12 hours later in the morgue, smile at Perrando Hospital, in Resistencia, Chaco province, Argentina on April 11, 2012.

Parents find 'dead' baby alive in Argentinian morgue

BUENOS AIRES - A baby declared stillborn and then later found alive by her parents at a morgue in Argentina was in critical condition on Friday after taking a turn for the worse overnight, a hospital official said.

Doctors told Analia Bouter that her baby was stillborn when she gave birth in Argentina's northern Chaco province at the start of the month.

But 12 hours after her birth , when Bouter and her husband pried open the wooden coffin inside the refrigerated morgue to see her one last time, they found the baby not only breathing but yawning and stretching her arms.

The couple named her Luz Milagros - her middle name meaning miracles in Spanish - because of her unlikely start to life. But the newborn gave her parents another scare late on Thursday when she stopped breathing and had to be revived by doctors.

The child's mother spoke by telephone on Wednesday with President Cristina Fernandez. "She told me this shows that miracles do happen," Bouter told Clarin newspaper.