This year marks Baby Abel’s first Christmas, despite the fact that no one expected him to live… His parents were asked several times to say goodbye to him. In the short time that Abel lived, he suffered more than many adults.
He had two operations and ten blood transfusions in the first four months alone. But the boy refused to give up, and despite all the doctors’ predictions, he lived and had every opportunity of a happy life!
Abel was born 24 weeks pregnant and weighed a little over 400 grams. Charlotte had severe preeclampsia at the moment, which required an early delivery or both mother and child would die. Abel was delivered in critical condition, and Charlotte never saw him since he was immediately sent to the intensive care unit.
The woman was kept in a coma for two days to restore her blood pressure and work on her internal organs. She saw her baby on the phone screen for the first time. “I had lost a baby at 17 weeks of pregnancy a year before that.” Abel has become a divine gift for us.
He was alive, breathing, and fighting. And just next to him were his mother and father, who came to the hospital every day to pray for their son. Despite the doctors’ expectations, another miracle occurred: he began to recover. He had been through a lot during his five months in the hospital. But now, no one can believe that the small happy boy has been on the point of death more than once.