Doting Three-Year-Old Boy Feeds His Paralysed Mum By Mouth
They say the bond between a mother and child is the strongest bond of all, and it would be difficult to find a more moving example than the story of three-year-old Gao Qianbo and his mum, Zhang Rongxiang.
By Sadho Ram — 23 Aug 2014, 07:32 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Since he was born, Qianbo has taken it upon himself to care for Zhang – who was paralysed in a car accident before his birth – and now even chews her food for her and feeds it to her mouth-to-mouth
Gao Qianbo feeding his mother Zhang Rongxiang in Shuyang city, Jiangsu province, China
Image via bauermedia.co.uk42 year-old Zhang suffered a horrific car accident in 2010 and doctors told her husband Gao Dejin that she would never recover. She was hospitalised for three months and Dejin was told that she would never wake up and that she could die at any minute.
'Doctors shook their heads and told us to give up,' her husband said. 'But I wouldn't give up and insisted for continuing treatment on her.'
But moments after doctors told her husband, Gao Dejin, that she would never recover, they realised she was with child... and that the baby had miraculously survived the trauma. However, doctors warned Deijin that there was a good chance the baby would never be born and, if it was, it might be disabled due to the medication that Zhang had been receiving.
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So her husband checked a comatose Zhang out of the hospital in order to care for her at home. Their healthy son Gao Qianbo was then born by medics performing caesarean section.
The little boy has spent every day by his mother's bedside ever since. As he grew older Qianbao would often stand by his mother's side saying 'mom wake up'. Then, to doctor's astonishment, she awoke to the sound of his little voice in May this year.
dailymail.co.ukHis father Deijin recalled: 'I noticed something was happening. Whenever he was around and called her, she could turn her head to the baby's side'
While she is able to swallow, she cannot chew her food. So to avoid having to eat pureed hospital meals, she is given regular food which Gao Qianbo helpfully chews and then tenderly passes from his mouth to hers. The touching display of filial devotion has been captured on camera for the first time since Zhang Rongxiang awoke from a vegetative state in May. The family has survived mainly on government subsistence with some support from relatives and friends.
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