HEARTWARMING! Mum Who Donated Late Baby Son’s Heart Listens to it Beat Years Later in Recipient’s Body

Heather Clark, a Californian mum who donated her deceased 7-month-old son’s heart to a little Arizona girl with congenital heart defect, heard it beat for the first time since his death in 2013 as she pressed a stethoscope to the 4-year-old recipient, Jordan Drake’s chest at a Phoenix hospital on Friday.

As she cried, Esther Gonzalez, Jordan’s mum, reportedly comforted her, saying, “That’s your baby…We’re family now. We’re friends now.”

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Gonzalez was also said to have presented Clark a teddy bear that plays an audio recording of her deceased son’s heart beat.

Heather’s heartwarming gesture gave Jordan who desperately needed a heart transplant a second chance at life.

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According to NYDailyNews, Clark’s son, Lukas, her first child, was 7-months-old when he suffered fatal injuries, allegedly at the hands of a babysitter’s abusive boyfriend in a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., home. He died three days later at a Loma Linda hospital.

A trial date has not been set for the suspect, Ryan Anthony Garcia, 24, who has been remanded in a San Bernardino County jail since his arrest.