>A Miracle! This is what most of us would say when a premature baby (7-month old) is declared alive after 5 hours of his lifeless moments.

According to his grandmother, Sherry Jean Botabara, the baby was declared dead by a doctor in a hospital in Bacoor, Cavite around 7:30 pm, Thursday (Sept. 14) and advised the relatives to take the baby’s body home and prepare for his wake and burial.

The doctor advised the family to put the baby in a carton box and they covered it with plastic sheet, thinking that the baby is cold dead as per doctor’s declaration.

The family were very upset about the baby’s fate especially because he’s the first born child, came out prematurely without completing the nine months development period inside his mother’s womb.

Around 10 pm, Sherry arrived from work and decided to personally supervise the preparation for the baby’s wake. The family members discussed how to make things work, the baby’s wake and burial, and his mother’s hospitalization.

12 midnight, the family decided to put the baby in a bottle of formalin, as normally practiced for dead premature babies and unborn fetuses, and give him a descent burial after a couple of days of wake period.

But, when the baby’s grandfather voluntered to open the box after removing the plastic cover, the baby suddenly moved his legs and cried aloud, A SIGN OF LIFE.

The family members were freeze to their amazement and they can’t imagine how could a baby be alive, 5 hours after he was declared dead by a professional doctor– a MIRACLE!!!

Sherry, her husband and the rest of the family felt relieved and decided to take the baby to the Manila Sanitarium in Pasay City, hoping the doctors could save the infant from any danger.

The doctors responded immediately upon the family’s arrival in the hospital and gave the baby the necessary medical attention.

For the skeptics, they would conclude this case as a mere medical blunder because the doctor who made the first diagnosis failed to give the baby the full medical attention assuming the baby could be in the comatose condition.

But the question is, if the baby was indeed comatose, how could he survived for 5 hours without any life supporting devices like oxygen, though the normal practice if a baby is born premature, he must be put immediately inside an incubator for further medical observation and assistance.

I would see this as a special Near-Death-Experience case, because unlike other NDE cases of a person died of accident or of disease, the baby here is dead upon birth. I presume there could be a soul, maybe a higher soul, who managed to enter the baby’s body when the original soul failed to survive.

The baby, who maybe baptized by the name “Marvelous”, is a special child and I know he has a special mission in his lifetime. Like other people, who experienced NDE and acquired special abilities like healing, psychic readings and other inner powers, the baby could have his own special task to help people.