Miracles still happen

Azita and Christian meeting after 20 years (video further down)

I feel honored to share with you a touching story of love and joy, as we see miracles happening all around us, which unfortunately are never reported. This is an incredible story of a woman who found an abandoned baby in the woods and now they are re-uniting after 20 years. Watch this dramatic encounter and her story of how Azita Milanian found this baby, thanks to her dogs who were in a place they were not supposed to be, back in 1998. All she could say was “Thank you for coming into my life; you’ve changed my life. The day I found you, my faith grew stronger. God sent us here for a purpose.” Azita bursts into tears at the sight of the man whom she first met as an abandoned baby. It was May 1998, in Pasadena, California. Azita Milanian turned down a friend who invited her for a salsa class. She did not know why, but that evening she wanted to go for a jog with her Labradors in the nearby mountains. In addition, she had parked her car one block closer than she had in the past 8 years. And she was wearing a T-shirt about helping orphans. All of this continues to assure her that there are no coincidences in life.

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/