<p>Tracey Hermanstorfer, 33, was in labour when she suffered a cardiac arrest at the Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs on the Christmas eve.<br /><br />“I had everything taken away and given back to me in two hours,” new dad Mike Hermanstorfer, 37, was quoted as saying by the New York Post.<br /><br />While terming the incident as “an absolute miracle”, the Denver truck driver recalled that “everything seemed perfectly normal when, all of a sudden, I noticed her hands turned blue. She was just grey. She looked dead.”<br /><br />“They tried to resuscitate her for four to five minutes and she was not coming back. They couldn’t get a heartbeat, nothing,” he recounted.<br /><br />Unable to revive Tracey, doctors focussed on saving the child. “They had to give the baby a fighting chance. So they gave my wife a C-section right there and then and pulled out my son,” Mike said.<br /><br />“I had seen my wife in front of me gone. I was holding my son, lifeless,” Mike said.<br />But doctors refused to give up and “did something to (the infant) and boom, he came back to me right in my hands,” the dad said.<br /><br />Dr Stephanie Martin, director of maternal feotal medicine at Memorial Hospital, said Tracy “was dead, she had no heartbeat, no breathing. <br /><br />Dr Martin added: “Immediately after delivering him (the baby), her pulse came back.”<br />Recalling the incident, Tracy said “I guess I went into cardiac arrest and I really don’t remember anything after that.”<br /><br />The doctors were so sure Tracey had died, they did not administer anaesthesia during C-section. However, doctors continued to work on Tracey till she was revived, but cannot explain why this happened.</p>
<p>Tracey Hermanstorfer, 33, was in labour when she suffered a cardiac arrest at the Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs on the Christmas eve.<br /><br />“I had everything taken away and given back to me in two hours,” new dad Mike Hermanstorfer, 37, was quoted as saying by the New York Post.<br /><br />While terming the incident as “an absolute miracle”, the Denver truck driver recalled that “everything seemed perfectly normal when, all of a sudden, I noticed her hands turned blue. She was just grey. She looked dead.”<br /><br />“They tried to resuscitate her for four to five minutes and she was not coming back. They couldn’t get a heartbeat, nothing,” he recounted.<br /><br />Unable to revive Tracey, doctors focussed on saving the child. “They had to give the baby a fighting chance. So they gave my wife a C-section right there and then and pulled out my son,” Mike said.<br /><br />“I had seen my wife in front of me gone. I was holding my son, lifeless,” Mike said.<br />But doctors refused to give up and “did something to (the infant) and boom, he came back to me right in my hands,” the dad said.<br /><br />Dr Stephanie Martin, director of maternal feotal medicine at Memorial Hospital, said Tracy “was dead, she had no heartbeat, no breathing. <br /><br />Dr Martin added: “Immediately after delivering him (the baby), her pulse came back.”<br />Recalling the incident, Tracy said “I guess I went into cardiac arrest and I really don’t remember anything after that.”<br /><br />The doctors were so sure Tracey had died, they did not administer anaesthesia during C-section. However, doctors continued to work on Tracey till she was revived, but cannot explain why this happened.</p>
