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> The newborn’s skin was blue and he wasn’t breathing. A few years earlier, the doctors would have documented the baby as stillborn, not believing there was anything they could do to help.

As someone who scored a 1/10 on the Apgar at birth, I'd like to thank Dr. Apgar for saving my life.

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My mom was born at an Air Force base in the 1950s. She said she was born silent and unresponsive, and they put her in another room to die, but then she recovered several hours later. That story always struck me as very odd, and heat breaking, but now it makes sense.

Two close family members (twins) were born in the late 1950s. An emergency baptism was immediately administered, their mother was told "there is nothing we can do" and the twins were given to her. They both survived.

As a father whose 3 children were all born emeregency c section and blue I also want to thank Dr. Apgar for the joy they have brought into my life.

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