Monday, November 17, 2014

Aww Touching! Father Sings 'Blackbird' To Dying Newborn Son Just Days After Wife Passes Away

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Chris Picco and his son Lennon at Loma Linda University Medical Center. (Chris Picco/Facebook)
Rachel Schwartz | ABC
Chris Picco hopes the heartbreaking video of him singing to his dying newborn son will bring strength to others going through similar situations. Video of Picco singing the Beatles' "Blackbird" to his son Lennon is being shared across the world.


Lennon was delivered via emergency C-section after his mother Ashley passed away in her sleep on Nov. 8. The premature newborn survived for four days but in the end, his father says the oxygen deprivation he suffered before his birth proved to be too much.

"Your whole life just changes in a moment," Picco said, speaking exclusively to ABC. "I knew that was going to happen with the birth of my son, I just didn't think it was going to be this soon. So it's just been unexplainable and just completely overwhelming and all encompassing and shattering."

Picco says he decided to bring his guitar into the NICU after recalling how Ashley would tell him how Lennon would move around in her belly while they listened to music. He felt that, as a musician, playing for his son was the one thing he felt like he could do at a time when he felt helpless.

"So I thought, I'm going to get my guitar; Ashley would want me to sing to my son and play to my son," he said.

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