VIDEO: Dying Premature Baby Is Brought to Life with the Power of Love

Babies that are born a long time before the due date usually don’t make it and if they do they will struggle with health issues most of their lives. But every once in a while a miracle happens and love is enough to help a child survive and live a good life.

According to huffingtonpost.com, the story of the family of Benjamin, Lyndsey and Ward, their prematurely born baby boy is a wonderful demonstration of pure love.

If you can’t stay long in the hospital room of a sick person with tubes and wires all over him or her, what more can you feel for a three and a half months old premature baby.

We know the fact that premature babies as young as Ward often can’t survive even with all the medical help. But the miracle of love once again demonstrated its power to the whole world and Ward survives the ordeal.

It is one thing to make a video of your baby’s first year as a surprise for your wife. When that baby was born 15 weeks prematurely, scored the lowest he could on a test for bleeding in his brain and spent his first 107 days of life in a hospital with soaring heart rates, that gift becomes even more special.

At 25 weeks into her first pregnancy, Lyndsey Miller was at work and started having cramps that she thought were due to her morning workout. It turned out she was in labor.

Her baby, Ward Miles, was born only four hours after her doctor sent her to hospital that day.

Ten days after Ward was born, the doctors did their first brain scan to look for bleeding. Out of a possible four grades, with four being the worst, the tiny infant scored a 2 on one side and a 4 on the other.

“We were devastated,” Ben said. “The bleeds could lead to severe problems down the road. And we couldn’t do anything to fix it. The doctors couldn’t do anything to fix it. It was a horrible feeling. All we could do was pray.”

But that night, something happened that Ben says he will never forget. He wrote about it in his journal:

At the 6:00 care time, we were holding his hand, looking at him, talking to him. His CPAP mask was off, and his feeding tube was out as well. He was feeling good since he didn’t have any of that on. While we were watching him, he turned his little head towards us, and then opened his eyes.

We know he can’t see at this stage, but the fact that he opened them, and opened them so wide we had not seen before. He stared right at us. He held our gaze. Just looked right at us. Didn’t blink. I had enough time to get a photo of it.

After a little while he shut his little eyes and turned his head back to the ceiling. I will never forget that moment. I feel as if he was telling us ‘I’m okay!!! Don’t give up on me!