Mother cradles baby for last time after life support is switched off (then baby came back to life)

dailymail.co.uk ^ | June 19, 2009 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Free ThinkerNY]

This picture shows the heart-breaking moment a mother believed she was cradling her baby for the last time after making the agonising decision to switch off her life support.

Emily Ashurst cradled her baby Grace close to her chest, thinking they would be her last moments together after the six-week old was struck down by meningitis.

But the baby girl stunned doctors by coming back to life after her life support machine was switched off.

Grace Vincent was given a one per cent chance of survival after being struck down with the deadly brain bug at just six weeks old.

After four days in intensive care, her parents were told she had 'catastrophic brain damage and had no chance of living' and made the awful decision to turn off the life support machine.

But as they stood at her hospital bedside preparing for her last gasping breaths, they saw Grace beginning to breathe on her own.

She has continued her miraculous recovery and today, four weeks on, she was released from hospital and taken home to Holystone, Newcastle.

Her mother, Emily Ashurst, 26, said hearing her cry for the first time in a month was 'the nicest sound in the world'.

[dinoparty]

I simply can’t imagine.

[trisham]

That brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for posting this wonderful story.

[politicalmerc]

You know God doesn’t always agree with the Doctors. And yes God and the Doctors are not one and the same like they often think. (No offense to any humble doctors among us).

[anniegetyourgun]

UK socialized medicine

[anniegetyourgun]

amen

[Former MSM Viewer]

I think God put Doctors on Earth and gave them the skills and knowledge they have.

What other profession rivals what doctors do, skill-wise?

[presently no screen name]

Amazing Grace, indeed. Thanks for posting this.

[GoRepGo]

Great story. But if this picture was taken before life support was discontinued, where are all the LS tubes and cords?

[nhwingut]

Only 4 days in ICU and she is forced to make that decision?

Disgraceful.

Welcome to the future of Obamacare. Drive thru medcare.

[politicalmerc]

I think God put Doctors on Earth and gave them the skills and knowledge they have. What other profession rivals what doctors do, skill-wise?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I have no argument with their skill or with giving them the praise they deserve when they don't have a condescending, know -it-all ego from hell. Unfortunately many do.

[libertymaker]

Exactly my thoughts, annie.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

You listen to this beautiful story, and then consider Obama, Biden, Pelosi, etc. offer justifications for abortion and wonder what went wrong in their brains that they don't think like normal people. Are the so enamored with their political positions that their human sensibilities are gone?

[Theodore R.]

Good example of how wrong the people and their physicians often are.

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[Theodore R.]

I suppose most people in the world, and certainly in Obamaland, would favor killing this child “if needed”.

[wagglebee]

Wow! I just pinged the moral absolutes list to this and will ping it to Terri Dailies later, but it is an INCREDIBLY moving story.

[AngieGal]

A simple swab test for Group B strep in pregnancy could have prevented this - routinely done in the US.

Also, the article said that the child is slowly regaining her senses, but as yet, cannot see. May God grant this precious child her sight again.

[MrEdd]

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[presently no screen name]

The last picture: After the life support machine was switched off, Grace was expected to quietly die but survived against all odds

Not sure what picture you mean "before" - but the one by herself is after the support was switched off.