'Miracle' baby comes back from the dead

Telegraph.co.uk

A family has described how their baby son "came back to life" when he was revived by doctors half an hour after he stopped breathing following a heart attack.

Two-week-old Woody Lander was pronounced dead at Leeds General Infirmary after frantic attempts to save him by medical staff apparently failed.

But his body began "twitching" and the team tried again to resuscitate him, this time successfully starting his heart.

There were worries Woody may have suffered brain damage because he stopped breathing for so long, but scans have shown no problems.

"They reached the cut-off point for resuscitation and said 'that's it' and handed Woody to us to say goodbye," father Jon Lander told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"They started taking tubes out and that's when he started twitching.

"They managed to get his heart going again and he came back to life in front of us."

The couple had rushed the baby to hospital after he stopped breathing and he suffered a heart attack in the accident and emergency department.

Surgeons found a blockage in his aorta and the youngster underwent a major operation.

Now Mr Lander, 34, and his wife Karen, 32, say Woody - now 14-months-old - is their "little miracle".

And civil servant Mr Lander is hoping to thank the hospital by running in the Leeds 10k Run for All later this year.

He is raising cash for the Children's Heart Surgery Fund at the hospital.