Husband Doesn’t Allow Wife’s Life Support To Be Taken Off After Emergency C-Section, Months Later She Recovers And Meets Her Son

Dec 28, 2022 by apost team

Seeing loved ones fight for their lives is one of the most painful things one could ever witness. But it’s even more painful to be made to choose between taking someone off life support and keeping them on. Sometimes, people choose to let go, even if it’s difficult, because they no longer want their loved ones to suffer or because they can no longer bear seeing them in pain. Nonetheless, people have their own reasons. As to why they went with their decision, only they can answer it. Then again, there are also those who choose to hold on and keep their faith. And whether you believe it or not, miracles do happen.

In August 2021, Autumn Carver and her husband Zach contracted COVID-19 while she was seven months pregnant. She had to be admitted to the ICU on a ventilator with acute respiratory distress syndrome. To save the life of her baby, an emergency c-section was performed on her. She successfully gave birth to her son on Aug. 27, 2021. 

Autumn’s son Huxley Elias was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit as he was born two months early while she was put on advanced life support called ECMO.

Zach could still vividly remember the day he was told about his wife’s condition. "I was told that she had zero percent chance of survival. I mean, it was the worst day of my life,” Zach recalled in an interview with CBN.

In the first week of September, a friend of the couple named Brittany Ginder launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to help Zach pay for Autumn and Huxley’s hospitalization bills, successfully raising $55,000 of the $60,000 goal.

Autumn remained in critical condition, but Zach didn’t lose hope and continued praying for his wife. “I told them I am not leaving here without Autumn. I prayed all the time. Every second. I can’t explain it, I just knew she was going to survive,” he said.

As time went by, more complications occurred, including multiple infections and anemia. Autumn even had to be revived after she went into cardiac arrest. Then, the doctors finally suggested taking Autumn off life support for her to “die peacefully” instead. But Zach refused to do it.

“The main doctor said there was a zero percent chance that she would survive. I remember going off on my own that afternoon somewhere in the hospital. I had been praying. I just knew that she wasn’t going to die,” Zach said. 

Autumn survived and met her son for the first time on Oct. 19, 2021 — and it was one of the best days for her as a mom to her third child. Then in December 2021, in time for Christmas, Autumn was reunited with her family — including her two other children, Harlow and Sadie.

"We have a lot to be thankful for, for Christmas and celebrating the birth of Jesus and us being together," Autumn told Good Morning America. "It's not so much about the presents and all that jazz, we'll just be happy to be able to be all together for Christmas,” she added.

Meanwhile, Zach said his heart is full knowing his family was complete for Christmas.

"Having my whole family under one roof for the first time was, I don't have words to put on that," Zach said. "Happy and joyful, they don't compare to what I really feel. We're just all so happy to be together, especially right before Christmas."

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What can you say about Zach’s decision to refuse the doctors’ suggestion to have his wife taken off life support? Do you know of any other miraculous incidents like this one? Let us know your thoughts and pass on this story to your loved ones who might love to read it.