The Chinese mother, Lu Xiaoyun, believes she was only four months pregnant and the still unnamed baby could not have been alive after birth. Her husband, He Yong, who was coming from work, discovered her drenched in a pool of blood and immediately rushed her to a nearby hospital.
When the responding ambulance staff asked about the baby, the father told them it was pointless to check on her as she was stillborn.
However, doctors at the hospital insisted to see the ‘dead’ infant to determine the real cause of death.
Upon reaching home, the father could no longer find the baby. His mother-in-law told him she buried the newborn in the backyard under a tree after they left two hours before.
He quickly rushed to the grave and dug up, and was shocked to discover their daughter was still alive and breathing. He immediately went back to the hospital with the infant and doctors told him his wife was actually six months pregnant and not four as Mrs. Lu had initially believed.
The baby then received treatment from the hospital for three days, but has to be discharged because the poor family could no longer afford the expenses.
The father said he is the only one working in the family and they have another daughter, 7, while his aging mother-in-law is also sick.
Fortunately, the story of her premature daughter was picked up by Chinese social media and went viral. Donations had since been pouring in from generous and good-hearted people, enabling them to return their daughter to the hospital and placed under close observation inside an incubator.
From being a ‘stillborn’, the girl is now called a ‘miracle baby’.
