Baby prematurely brought to life by 'skin to skin' contact with parents

A couple who had been told by doctors that their baby had died during birth brought him back to life again after giving his body a farewell cuddle.

Kate and David Ogg were devastated when maternity ward staff informed them that one of their two twins had stopped breathing after being born 14 weeks premature. Told that he had just a few moments left with a beating heart, they gathered his warm body in their arms for a tender embrace. Mrs Ogg ordered her husband to clamber into the bed and take off his shirt so that the infant could have extra warmth.

To their astonishment, the child suddenly began to move, his breath getting stronger rather than ebbing away. Hospital staff then leapt into action and nursed him into a full recovery.

His remarkable tale of survival took place in 2010, but has only just been revealed by his parents, who live in Queensland, Australia. The boy, named Jamie, is now a healthy, bouncy five-year-old, whose siblings joke that he used to be dead, but is now alive.