A heartbreaking video of a man singing a Beatles song to his dying newborn baby, after the mother died during labour, has gone viral online.
Chris Picco took a guitar into the neo-natal ward to sing 'Blackbird' to his son Lennon, born prematurely by emergency Caesarian section last weekend.
The boy was born at 24 weeks on November 8, and his mother Ashley died on the same day.
The infant survived three days in the neo-natal ward at Loma Linda University Hospital outside Los Angeles and died on November 11.
A video of the baby's father playing the song by his incubator had been watched by more than half a million times on Thursday with tens of thousands more views every few minutes.
"Our dear Ashley's life was tragically, devastatingly cut short this past weekend. Her dear baby flickered briefly for a few days after," said a statement on a memorial website.
AFP
source: newshub archive
