by Kelli

From KELOLAND.com comes the story of Renner Wollman, who is considered by his parents and doctors to be a living, breathing miracle.

Renner was not expected to survive. In fact, doctors expected that he would be stillborn. Instead, Renner defied the odds and took a breath when he was born. Fighting for his life, things began to turn around for him when his mom, Karen, asked if she could sit and rock him. She says, “We don’t know, the doctors don’t know. They said he’s not a medical miracle, he’s a real miracle, and they don’t know why.” More from KELOLAND.com:

“He did not cry when he was born, but he took one breath. All I remember is Brian [Renner’s father] crying and screaming, ‘Thank you. Thank you.’ We were just so happy we were going to meet him alive,” Karen said.

But keeping Renner alive was a struggle for his doctors.

“Within the first day, they sat us down and said, ‘He’s in kidney failure. If we can’t get his kidneys to work within the next 12 hours, he’s going to die,'”…

The Wollmans were told to prepare for their son’s death and the medical team asked for their last wishes.

“Because I wanted something–if he wasn’t going to survive, something that I had done with him; and even though I did not get to hold him very often that meant the world to me,” Karen said.

Karen asked the hospital if she could bring her rocking chair up to Renner’s room and rock him.

“And I think I held him that day for about four hours. And little by little, from that moment on, he started getting better,” Karen said.

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