For new moms, the first few days after birth can be incredibly challenging as they figure out how to best care for their child and try to make sense of what their child needs when they start crying.
Florida mom Brandy Guettler had tried everything to sooth her crying 11-day-old baby, and when nothing seemed to work, the new mom almost burst into tears herself. “He was actually getting really fussy,” Brandy Guettler explained. “And the nurse said why don’t you try laying him down next to Hawk. I said ‘Can you do that?’”
It never occurred to Brandy that baby Mason was just missing his twin brother Hawk, who had shared a womb with him for the entire pregnancy but had been quickly separated by doctors when they realized he was very sick. “So we laid him there and all of the sudden as soon as he felt Hawk, he reached his arm out and grabbed him and just started to smile. The two of them knew they were there for each other,” Brandy said of the special moment the two twins were reunited for the first time.
“We posted the picture for people to see how they were doing since we were so far away at Shands in Gainesville,” dad Tommy Buchmeyer said soon after posting the photo. “Every day the numbers grow. 5.6 million people have seen it. 24,000 shares. 105,000 likes.”
Incredibly, baby Mason stayed perfectly calm after being reunited with Hawk, who soothed his brother while fighting for his own life after being born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), which is a fatal condition that prevents the lungs from developing properly.
“The whole ordeal is as bad as you can get,” Tommy said. ”The doctors aren’t giving us false hope. We know it’s a long shot.” Despite the prognosis, however, the new parents explained that they have been comforted by the outpouring of love and support from around the world since the photo of their sons went viral.
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[Featured image: Facebook/Mason & Hawk]
Mom Captures Touching Moment Newborn Twins Are Reunited For The First Time is an article from: LifeDaily