The Magic Touch

Recently, a woman in Australia got the worst news a parent can get: her premature baby just could not survive the birth process and it was time to say goodbye. After having worked on the little guy for twenty minutes in an effort to revive him, the doctors called it hopeless and handed tiny Jamie to his parents. His mother, wanting to spend every precious second she could bonding with this too-soon-gone baby, unwrapped him from his blanket and placed him next to her bare skin. She and her husband began talking to him and telling him all the things they would never have another chance to say when he began making gasping noises. The doctors insisted it was a reflex action not indicative of life, but mothers don’t spend the better part of a year literally physical connected to someone not to get a little extra insight from the powers that be. As Jamie began to show more life, his mother gave him a drop of breast milk from her finger to see what would happen--a purely instinctive action not prompted by any training, just a desperately hopeful mom flying blind. And that miracle baby opened his eyes to get a first look at the mommy who wouldn’t give up on him, even in the face of scientific certainty. In Karen Kingsbury’s Let Me Hold You Longer, a mother reflects back on the rapidly waning childhood of her little boy. For Jamie’s mom, the best is yet to come.

P.S. Check out the story from the link below...but have tissue handy.

http://www.amazon.com/Let-Me-Hold-You-Longer/dp/1414300557

http://www.karenkingsbury.com/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1306283/Miracle-premature-baby-declared-dead-doctors-revived-mothers-touch.html