Freaky Monday.

A premature baby declared dead by doctors was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake.

The baby's father, Jose Alvarenga, was told by doctors that his son had died shortly after birth.

Staff from the state-run hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, delivered the infant's body to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later.

Shortly afterwards, the grieving father opened the baby's coffin to bid an emotional farewell to his son.

"I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Mr Alvarenga said. "I began to cry."

He rushed back to the hospital with his unnamed baby in his arms and nurses placed the infant in an oxygen chamber.

He is now reported to be in a stable condition.

"This is a very unusual case," said Ernesto Weber, head of paediatric intensive care at the hospital.

No kidding, it's an unusual case.

Heck, that's the freakiest thing I've ever heard. It was alive for four hours without any discernible heartbeat or breathing? It's astounding. Can you imagine if the father hadn't opened the casket? Thank God he did.

(By the way, there are no typos in this blog entry - the above was copied from a British newspaper and you know how they are with their spelling...)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205165/Father-opens-coffin-dead-baby-alive.html#ixzz0NkSdjBQk