Jenna and Leo heard the words every parent feels frightened of: Their newborn wasn't going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature(早产的),1 just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no2 . His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he'd stopped breathing. The baby, whom the couple had already named Jamie, had just minutes to live.
"I saw him gasp( 喘 息 ) weakly, but the doctor said it was no3 ," Jenna told the Daily Mail five years later. "I know it sounds stupid,4 if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn't going to give up5 ."
In an effort to cherish（ 珍 惜 ） her last moments with the tiny boy, Jenna asked to6 him.
The couple knew this was likely a7 .
Jenna ordered Leo to take his shirt off and join8 and the boy in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible in their arms and hoped the skin-to-skin touch would improve his9 . They also talked to him.
"We were trying to ask him to stay," Jenna told the Daily Mail. "We explained his name and that he had a twin who he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to10 him."
Then something completely11 happened. Jamie started12 again. Finally, he reached for his father's finger.
The couple's lost boy had made it.
"We're the13 people in the world," Leo said.
Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The parents only recently told the kids the story of their14 . "Emily burst into tears," Jenna told the Daily Mail. "She was really upset, and she kept hugging Jamie. This whole15 makes you cherish them more."
