Life-Giving Touch
Reader's Digest India|December 2018

On 25 March 2010, Kate and David Ogg heard the words every parent dreads: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it.

Juliana Labianca
Life-Giving Touch

Their twins—a girl and a boy— were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live.

“I saw him gasp, but the doctor said it was no use,” Kate told the Daily Mail five years later. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily.”

Still, the Sydney couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to cherish her last minutes with the tiny boy, Kate asked to hold him.

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