The boy, Jamie, wouldn’t make it, doctors told her. So she held him close and asked her husband to get in the bed with her.

“I wanted as much body heat around this baby as possible,” she said in the video. “I moved his ear to my heart…and cried and cried.”

They told him about all his twin sister, about the plans they had for him. And then he opened his eyes and with his tiny fingers, he grabbed his father’s hand.

Watch the emotional viral video here, and read more at Rare.