Amy Louise had just given birth to her second child when the heart-breaking happened. The baby boy wasn't breathing.
It was the 31st of October, and Amy feared the worst.
"'He’s not breathing!', I hear the doctors say." she recalled to Kidspot.
"I see Gary, he’s standing with his hands on his head while he tries to see our tiny human - but there are too many doctors. They are pushing on our baby’s chest, 'one and two and three and breathe', 'one and two and three and breath' …ten very long and painful minutes go by.
"I said 'he’s gone isn't he? He’s dead'. The doctor squeezes my hand -I knew he meant 'yes'."
Suddenly the nurse cried out, "Thank God!!! He’s come back! He’s come back."
Amy and her husband Gary named their baby Phoenix, after his miracle return to life.
"My little soldier, after 13 minutes of no heartbeat - he was alive!"
After being separated for a spell while Phoenix recuperated in ICU, the family were finally reunited.
"He was beautiful – 3.5kg of perfection right there on my chest. 'I love you my zombie baby' I said as I kissed his hairy head - wrapped in his all-black swaddle that took me months to find."
In the theme of Halloween and returning to life, they decided to hold a zombie themed cake smash for little Phoenix.
But unfortunately, not everyone was impressed. The pictures received backlash on social media from other mums.
'This makes me uncomfortable'
'What kind of a mother dresses their son as a dead baby'
'This is so offensive to all the women who have lost their children.'
However, those that understood the touching story behind the pictures advocated for their creativity and originality. And Amy couldn't care less.
"I was, in all honesty, slaughtered by these mothers - but they didn't know our story. They didn't even bother to learn it, and we didn't care," Amy recalls.
What do you think? Some spooky fun or too far?
