05.18.08
Earthquake Baby Kept Alive with Protection from Mother’s Body
This is a bittersweet story that has emerged from the Sichuan earthquake tragedy (see video in Chinese). When a house collapsed on a mother and her 3 to 4 month old infant, the mother protected the baby’s body with hers by kneeling prostrate over the baby. When rescuers arrived 5 days later, on May 17, they found the mother had been crushed to death, but that the baby was sleeping peacefully - alive. Shortly thereafter they found the mother’s cellphone, where she had written the text message to her baby that read “My dear baby, if you live, you must remember that I love you.”
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uslacker99 said,
May 21, 2008 at 14:20
Very touching story. I wish we could see a picture of the mother.