That evening in the mountains
something caught her dogs’ attention. Distracted, they stopped in the bushes
and didn’t react to her calling them. Milanian locked them in the car and
returned to that spot. Suddenly
she saw two small feet sticking out of the ground and heard barely audible
cries. It was a baby boy who had been born just hours before. He
was wrapped in a blue towel, laid in a hollow in the ground and covered with
dirt. An umbilical cord was still attached to his belly. Milanian immediately cleared his mouth and nose and called 911. Waiting for the ambulance, Milanian
tried to calm the baby. She hugged him and repeated: “Don’t die, please, don’t die. I will never leave you.
I love you.” A few days later,
in an interview, she recalls: “He grabbed my wrist and stopped crying. This was
so emotional. What sick person could possibly do such a thing?”
The child was rushed to the hospital and quickly recovered,
which the then-director of the neonatology department of Huntington Memorial Hospital
calls a miracle. Media outlets, following the hospital staff, named the newborn “Baby Christian,” and people moved by the
story start donating toys, clothes, and money. Within
a few months, adoptive parents were found for the little boy, and Milanian lost touch with him. At first, she tried to fight for being able to know
his whereabouts, but she was turned down and eventually gave up. She was
convinced that one day she’d find him.Baby Christian, now named Matthew Christian Whitaker learned in 2017 about what
happened to him right after he was born. On May 18, 2018, Azita
Milanian and Matthew were invited to be guests on the show On Air with
Ryan Seacrest. Hugging Matthew,
with tears streaking down her cheeks, 58-year-old Milanian says: ”This day is the fulfilment of my dreams. I’ve been waiting
for it for 20 years. You are exactly the way I imagined. I guessed your size,
everything. Thank you for coming to my life; you changed my life.”
Grab a tissue, and watch the emotional reunion here. Just copy this link and watch the video further down in the article:
https://aleteia.org/2020/09/07/she-found-a-baby-buried-alive-they-reunited-20-years-later/
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