Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Baby Raised from Death to Life!!

This is a firsthand account of baby Legend and his amazing story. I am a nurse in the NICU and he was my patient. I am sharing with permission from his mother. 

Baby Legend was born toward the end of January. His mother had a placental abruption (placenta detaches from her body and the baby is deprived of oxygen) the day the baby was born. When she went to the hospital, they could not detect the baby's heartbeat. The did an emergency c-section and when the baby was born the cord was around his neck, tightly, 3 times. He was clinically dead and was revived with full resuscitation efforts for 13 minutes (3 minutes longer than our policy allows). From the time they couldn't detect the heartbeat until the time he was born was 11 minutes. In total, that's 24 minutes of being clinically "dead." He was on the highest form of life support available. He started having seizures and all of his organs shut down. Within a week, he "died" two other times and was brought back to life. He was not given a good prognosis and the doctors advised his family to remove life support. His mom is a warrior and refused to believe their report. She told the doctors that her God is bigger and she believed in him for a full healing from head to toe for her baby. In 3 weeks time he was off ALL life sustaining equipment. He is off ALL medications helping his organs function. All organs have returned to normal. His brain scan was NORMAL. He is awake and alert and eating and will be discharged from the NICU soon. He is acting like a normal baby. The doctors are stunned! Praise God for this miracle!!