A 16-week premature baby boy was declared dead by doctors in Paraguay. But when the father prepared for the wake hours later, he discovered that his son was very much alive.
"I opened the box and took the baby out and he cried. I got scared and I said "the baby's crying" ... and then he started moving his arms, his legs and I got scared, we got very scared," said one member of the family, Liliana Alvarenga.
The baby weighed 1.1 pound at birth, according to Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the state-run hospital Asuncion.
"Initially, the baby didn't move, he practically didn't have any respiratory reflexes, nor did we hear a heartbeat and, as a result, we declared a premature fetus of 24 weeks dead," Weber told Reuters Television.
According to the Fox News report, the family was given a death certificate and a cardboard box which served as a makeshift coffin. The hospital has begun an investigation and the baby is now in a stable condition in an incubator.
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