LETTING
BABY GO

Topics: Babies; Control; Crisis; Dependence on God; Faith; Love; Rescue; Surrender; Trials; Trust

References: Exodus 2:3; Psalm 22:7–9; 91; Isaiah 43:1–3

Letting go of their children and watching them make their own way in the world is tough for any parent. For Tracinda Foxe, however, letting go came much too early in her baby’s life.

In December 2005, Foxe’s apartment building in the Bronx caught fire. With flames engulfing her third-floor bedroom, Foxe was forced to contemplate the unthinkable. As smoke billowed around her, Tracinda leaned out the window with her baby. Then she let go of her child. The infant tumbled three stories down into the waiting arms of Felix Vazquez, who performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the baby until paramedics arrived.

Moments later, Tracinda was rescued from her apartment by firefighters and reunited with her child. Neither was seriously injured. Asked later about the painful decision to drop her baby from the window, Tracinda said, “I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life. I said, ‘God, please save my son.’ And he did.”

—Catherine Donaldson-Evans, “The Good News of 2005,” FoxNews.com (December 30, 2005)