{"id":215947,"date":"2019-12-28T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215947"},"modified":"2019-12-27T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T22:52:46","slug":"mother-delivered-early-dying-husband-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-delivered-early-dying-husband-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother delivered two weeks early so dying husband could meet his baby girl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For 45 minutes, Mark Aulger held his newborn baby girl Savannah. That snapshot of that moment is the one photo that the now nearly eight-year-old Savannah has with her father, who slipped into a coma the day after her birth and died just a few days later. It was unexpected devastation to a family who had been given renewed hope just a month earlier.<\/p>\n

In December 2011, Mark Aulger, 52, learned that after eight months of chemotherapy, he was cancer-free. Diane Aulger was pregnant with their fifth child and Christmas that year was full of joy. The new year, however, brought heartbreaking news. On January 3, 2012, Mark was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis – a result of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

“We thought he could get on steroid treatment and oxygen and live for years,” Diane told ABC News<\/a>. But that wasn’t the case. By January 16th, it became obvious that the treatments weren’t working and Mark was given just one week to live.<\/p>\n

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