An unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not live if took away from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable Surgical procedure. Practicing atVanderbilt University Medical ! Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is peaceful in the uterus.
In the course of the operation, the doctor removes the womb via C-section and creates a miniature opening to operate on the baby. As Dr.Bruner finished the surgery on Samuel, the tiny chap extended his tiny, but fully matured hand through the incision and aggressively grabbed the surgeon's finger.
The doctor said that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional time of his life, and that for an moment in the course of the operation he was just frozen stiff completely motionless.