"Miracle" as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours

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[topher]

Monday August 30, 2010

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"Miracle" as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours

By Hilary White

SYDNEY, Australia, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors were baffled in April when a premature baby boy whom they had pronounced dead appeared to come back to life after two hours of being held by his mother. Staff had given child, Jamie, a twin, to his mother to hold and to “say goodbye” after the 27-week gestation boy had been pronounced dead. The attending doctor had spent 20 minutes after the birth trying to get the boy to breathe.

Kate Ogg, of Sydney, Australia, held the child directly next to her skin and when he showed signs of life, gave him some breast milk on the end of her finger.

But Kate and husband David Ogg now say that they fear that their son, who was born with his twin sister Emily, may be brain damaged or suffer other long-term medical complications because their doctor didn’t believe them when the boy showed what the parents believed were signs of life. After Jamie began moving, they asked the doctor to return, but he refused, sending the midwife back to say the baby was just going through death throes.

“We knew the doctor wasn’t coming back in, so we called for him again,” Kate Ogg later told an interviewer on Australian TVl. “In the interim, the midwife took some footage and my mother and my sister were taking photos for us. Eventually my husband said, ‘Go and tell the doctor we weren't ready to listen to his explanation of how the baby died, can he come and explain it again,’ and that's when he returned.”

It was two more hours before Jamie received medical attention.

A friend of the Oggs told the Daily Mail that, “To be fair, the doctor genuinely believe Jamie was dead. When he came back into the room, even he told Kate it was a miracle,” but added that if Jamie suffers aftereffects from the lack of treatment, there could be legal action. 

Mrs. Ogg told the Australian television program Today Tonight that hearing that her child was dead “was the worst feeling I've ever felt.”

When Jamie was handed to her, she said she wanted to hold him next to her skin.

“I took my gown off and arranged him on my chest with his head over my arm and just held him. He wasn't moving at all and we just started talking to him.

“We told him what his name was and that he had a sister. We told him the things we wanted to do with him throughout his life.”

Jamie started gasping but his parents were told this was just a “reflex” action.

“But then I felt him move as if he were startled, then he started gasping more and more regularly. I gave Jamie some breast milk on my finger, he took it and started regular breathing normally.

“I thought ‘Oh my God, what's going on?’ A short time later he opened his eyes. It was a miracle. Then he held out his hand and grabbed my finger. He opened his eyes and moved his head from side to side. The doctor kept shaking his head saying, ‘I don't believe it, I don't believe it’.”

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[topher]

The medical community has the problem that often family does not accept the death of a loved one.

For this reason, I can understand why the doctor did not believe the family.

I am not sure what could have been done to convince the doctor to come back sooner and help the baby...

[mickie]

Mother's love can do miracles!

[Paperdoll]

I love it! This little guy might have a stubborn streak, but he finally responded to his parents! Not only is this a miracle, but it also may be strong evidence of prenatal intelligence.

[DoughtyOne]

If he reached out and grabbed that finger, this kid is going to be just fine.

[Faith]

Ping to share with J. and S.

[vanilla swirl]

ummm...
time of viability of the fetus hard to define isn’t it?

[HKMk23]

Make no mistake, my friends; every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes from The Father of Lights, Who never wavers, and never regrets having given.
— Jas. 1:16 & 17 [paraphrase]

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The medical community has the problem that often family does not accept the death of a loved one.

It is for that very reason that the doctor should have come back to the room. How indifferent it was to send the mid-wife in to explain they were witnessing "death throes."

I do find this very intriguing. I would love to know if there was some type of mother-to-son chemical reaction while she held him close or was there something in the breast milk which kept his physical being from shutting down completely.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

whoops! Forgot:

I am not sure what could have been done to convince the doctor to come back sooner and help the baby...

I used to tell my patients the squeaky wheel gets the grease. :-)

[dforest]

Wonderful outcome. The doctor should have returned much sooner. I hope the little kid will be okay in all ways.

[Osage Orange]

My dad used to say......You be the squeaky wheel too much...then the squeaky wheel get’s replaced.

[cubreporter]

Never underestimate the power of a mother’s love and the power of God.

[Gilbo_3]

and finally some good news for a change...

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I must admit..there is a line. I am not one for making noise over trivial items.

But in this case, the squeakier, the better.

[RedWhiteBlue]

This is a good example of “kangaroo care.”

http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/kangaroocare.asp

[NFHale]

“...come back to life after two hours of being held by his mother. ...”

Momma’s love is a miracle from God.

You go, tough little guy. God bless him and his family, and I believe he’s meant for great things.

Not easy to do, but this choked me up...a crusty, old, jaded, cynical b*stard like me.

Thanks for the ping, Brother G...I needed some good news.

[DoughtyOne]

We don’t have all the answers do we.

Who knew?

You’re right. It was a touching incident. Wonderful.

[NFHale]

“...We don’t have all the answers do we...”

You got that right, D-One...No, we don’t...at all.

With each passing day, I begin to realize how much I personally DON’T know “jack” about “sh*t” - and that only God has the answers, and all we can do it try to play catch-up...and fail miserably.

Tough little guy. I hope he thrives...as a matter of fact, suddenly for some reason, it matters a great deal to me that he does, and I’ll never even know/meet/see these people...

In this whole sick f***ing world full of dumbass people who do nothing but mess with and screw with and eff-over other folks, this poor little guy drops in, gets left for dead before he even has a chance, and all that stands between him and eternity is his momma’s love, pain, and tears. This kid’s struggle for life, which goes largely unnoticed and uncared about, plays out in a hospital halfway across the world - and the people that are SUPPOSED to “do no harm” and help him come into the world turn their back and leave him for dead...

And despite the odds and everything against him, he lives. His “First Great Act of Defiance” is that he lives... simply because God says so, and not some white-coat who knows it all.

I hope he grows up and changes the world for the better, in his day and time. I hope he becomes a good man, and raises a family of good children.

Prayers up for him and his family...

[mickie]

I wrote a letter to the editor asking if he knows how Baby Jamie is now.
Lets pray that the baby is doing well.
I'll post the reply if I get one.

[Gilbo_3]

not to trivialize the miracle by any means, and being glad to have choked up another crusty old bastard [as it did to me, hence the pingy], here to the lad as being a Godly servant to the Father, and for potentially being the ‘john connor’ that will ultimately emerge as a leader...