At the hospital, relatives crowd around to see the newborn baby, Stephen John Sutherland II. Everyone agrees: He has his father's smile.
Sadly, the infant's father will never have the chance to meet him. The first Stephen John Sutherland, a soldier, died more than a year ago in battle in Iraq.
However, before Sutherland left the U.S., he froze some of his sperm to make sure that, even if he did not return safely from the war zone, a part of him would remain in the world.
"I think that Stephen had, I don't know, a sixth sense telling him he needed to do this because he didn't think he was coming back, " Steven's wife, Maria, told WCHS6 News in Portland, Maine.
Shortly after learning of her husband's death, Maria was impregnated with Stephen's sperm. Despite her tragic loss, she knew there was hope for the future – thanks to Stephen's remarkable foresight, she could honor his memory by raising their child.
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