00:00I got up this Sunday morning, you know, and I started to feel kind of upset, and then
00:10suddenly I started to hemorrhage, pain, when I tell you, pain.
00:16On the morning of November 24th, 1974, Marshall's mother was rushed to the hospital in severe
00:21pain and hemorrhaging, even though the baby wasn't expected until December 16th.
00:26When I got to the hospital and the doctor checked for heartbeat, there was no heartbeat,
00:32and he said to me, this baby is going to be stillborn.
00:37One of Mrs. Montano's worst fears was confirmed.
00:42So the doctor was there sitting down, and he was whistling, and I said, Doctor, don't
00:47whistle, no, because I know you're doing that because you want me to feel comfortable.
00:52I said, could you cut me and take the baby?
00:55He said, no, it doesn't make sense to cut for a dead baby, I said, OK.
01:00Due to her heavy blood loss, Mrs. Montano's husband, as well as a worker at the hospital,
01:05had to give her blood.
01:07Five to ten in the evening is when they brought my husband's blood, the first pint, right?
01:15And right away, I started to feel a little movement, not from movement of the baby, but
01:22a little bit in my passage, you know?
01:24I said, Doctor, I'm feeling so and so, and he came and he said, OK, Montano, we have
01:29to do it now.
01:35No pain, no movement, no pushing, no contractions, and he said, come on, Montano, force.
01:43And I closed my eyes, and I forced.
01:47A baby boy was born in silence.
01:50I just said, OK, you know, this is a stillborn baby.
01:53But suddenly, the doctor turned his back on me, and I realized he started to take ice
02:01water and throw it on the baby's heart.
02:05He started to pump out mucus, then he started to pump oxygen, and then he started to slap,
02:12slap, slap him.
02:14And then he said, not good enough, not good enough, more ice water, more pumping out the
02:20mucus, more pumping oxygen, and then more licks.
02:24And then he cried, and he said, you had a boy, and he's not going to be sick one day.
02:31The king took his first breath, and the mother sighed in relief.
02:35And they took him away to put him in the arm, in an incubator, because remember, he was
02:41supposed to be born three weeks later.
02:45When they brought him back, we said, we're going to name him Jesus, because he was not
02:51supposed to be here, and by some miracle, he was.
02:56From that moment, Mrs. Montano knew that Marshall was destined for a purpose, but she had no
03:01idea how great his journey would be.
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