US wife induces baby for dying husband

A suburban Dallas woman says she had labor induced two weeks early so her dying husband could see their daughter. Diane Aulger of Colony, who was eight months pregnant at the time of the birth, said her husband Mark got to hold their daughter Savannah briefly, WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth, reported. He later lapsed into a coma and died five days after his daughter's birth. "He got to be the first one to hold her, [and he] held her for 45 minutes," Diane Aulger said. Mark Aulger succumbed to the effects of months of chemotherapy employed to knock out his colon cancer. He died with his daughter under his arm, and his two stepchildren, ages 8 and 10, and his wife by his side, WFAA-TV said. "It was basically like his lungs were soaked in concrete," Diane Aulger said. "They couldn't inhale or pass oxygen throughout the body, he was in essence, suffocating to death."