tired little boy born at just 27 weeks. weighing just one kilo. always boy who has defied all medical odds, his survival can only be described as a miracle. he should be dead. in fact, the doctor who delivered him pronounced him dead. >> maybe he knew how much we wanted him for a long time. >> reporter: how lucky do you feel? >> very lucky that we've got both of them. >> reporter: the 25th of march this year was both the best and worst day of kate and david's lives. the day their eagerly a it with aed twins, jamie and his baby sister, emily, were born. >> three days of labor and all of a sudden they were there and i knew i wouldn't be able to hold them because they were so small. >> the joy that we held when they told us that it was a little boy, i wanted to throw cart wheels. >> reporter: but within minutes, the family's joy turned to
were they just struggling to let go? unbelievably, this went on for two hours. they did call for his doctor twice. both times he sent the midwife back telling them jamie's actions were just natural reflexes. there was no possible way he could still be alive. >> i remember looking and going what if he lives. >> and we were both giggling like kids, like he might live. like we could be the luckiest people ever. >> reporter: this this video taken by a midwife clearly shows jamie's movements. but still there were doubts. so in one last ditch attempt, kate gave baby jamie some breast milk on her finger. to her amazement, he took it. the doctor returned. >> took him, laid him down on the bed and he told the thursday go get me a stethoscope. and he listened and he just kept shaking his head and moving it around, i don't believe it, i don't believe it. >> i saw the look on katie's
him, and i arranged h him to my chest with his head over my heart. >> reporter: although jamie had to visible signs of life, he was occasionally gasping for air. a reflex the doctor had told the new parents to expect. so with the support of a midwife and kate's mother, the couple did everything they can to sooth jamie in his last minutes. >> and almost as soon as the last person left the room, he startled, which was the first movement i felt of his arms and legs. he started gasping more regularly and i'm like, oh, my god, what's going on. and then a short time later, he opened his eyes. >> when i came back in, she said, mom, something's not right. he's still alive. and he put his finger up and grabbed her hand. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine the sort of turmoil david and kate must have been feeling. were jamie's actions real or
we said his name was going to be jamie and he turned around with him already lost up and said jamie didn't make him, we lost it. >> i was just can he have investigation at a time devastated. it was quite a shock for both of us. >> the worst feeling i've ever felt. >> well, doctors in australia say they are just dumb founded right now, but still they're celebrating. a medical an normality. a newborn blaewborn given up fo until he touched his mother for the first time. >> we call him miracle. never heard of anything like that happening before. >> this is possible, what if he survives through this, miracles do happen. >> reporter: this is jamie, a