It may look harsh. Baby Finley Burton lies down motionless on a freezing hospital bed in just a nappy, connected with a mystifying group of machines.

But this cruel handling was eventually helpful in saving the small boy's life.

Finley's small body was iced up in an endeavor to bring his irregular heartbeat under control subsequent to a heart surgery.

It took him four days to recuperate, a torture of waiting for his mom, Donna Link-Emery and dad, Aaron Burton, 31, who just wished to collect their little son up in their arms for a warm hug.

Miss Link-Emery, 27, said that it was very scary. They felt that they were going to lose their son. His heart was beating very rapidly and they just prayed to God that he would survive.

The duo, from Easington, County Durham, took Finley to the physician when he was ten weeks old seeing that he was not gaining much weight and had breathing problems.

He was at once moved to University Hospital of North Durham.

Miss Link-Emery said, “I had a normal pregnancy and nothing was picked up on any of my scans so I was expecting it to be a routine visit”.

But the specialist who examined her son's heart felt that he could listen to a whisper and sent him for an echocardiogram, also called cardiac ultrasound.

The little boy also had to undertake an electrocardiogram that calculates electrical activity in the heart, and an X-ray.