HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — "I kept telling them something was wrong."
Leandra Johnson fought back the tears as she removed the mist from her glasses. She was visiting family while living in Rhode Island in January 2007. She was due to give birth in about three weeks, but the discomfort prompted her to get the nearest hospital. Shortly after her baby boy was born, he stopped breathing.
"He came out and told us, 'He's not breathing,'" Johnson said.
Doctors couldn't get a pulse, and Leandra's baby stopped breathing for 65 minutes.
What came next hit like the cold January wind.
"The doctor was telling us, our baby was dead," she said.
That's all Leandra Johnson could remember before a miraculous turn of events. Father Timothy Reilly, chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Providence, explains