The baby’s name was Herbert and he was sure to die, just like his mother, who took her last breaths bringing him into the world.
The boy’s father, poor and alone, brought the infant to the BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, hoping someone would take pity on Herbert, who was small and sick after surviving his first five weeks on nothing but sugar water.
After telling Herbert’s father, on several occasions, that there was no room at the orphanage, 30-year-old Ben Avon native Jamie McMutrie caved in.
“We told the dad we would take [Herbert] and love him until he dies,” Jamie said in a telephone interview from Haiti. “I stayed up for what seemed like 24 hours a day for weeks feeding him through a dropper.”
After receiving his share of cuddling and proper nutrition, Herbert survived. He is now a happy 2 1/2-year-old living the in the United States with his adopted family…
Read more at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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