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 If ever a picture captured pure happiness and relief, this is it. 
 
 That’s Andrew Hanson on the left giving a bear hug to Dr. Bryan Hodges moments after he delivered Hanson’s son. They’d both been there before, with a much more tragic outcome. 
 
 Today Andrew Hanson, left, hugs Dr. Bryan Hodges after he delivered his son Karson at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, Idaho. Hanson's first baby died soon after birth less than a year earlier. 
 
 This time, they were crying tears of joy as baby Karson loudly announced his arrival into the world at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, Idaho, in February. The men’s emotional embrace was captured in a photo that’s since gone viral. 
 
 “That was the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard,” Hanson told TODAY Parents about the instant he heard his son cry. “When he came out, it was like he knew that we needed to hear him… Dr. Hodges was crying and happy and I just reached over and gave him a big old hug.” 
 
 Karson was born perfectly healthy on Feb. 21. It was a different story less than a year earlier, when Hanson’s wife Amanda arrived at the hospital to give birth to the couple’s first child. 
 
 The baby was long-awaited, with Andrew and Amanda, both 34, struggling with fertility issues for two and a half years before conceiving. 
 
 The pregnancy was routine, but when the baby boy, named Klayton, was born on April 6, 2013, he had aspirated meconium and wasn’t breathing. 
 
 
 
 What Andrew remembers most is that the baby didn’t cry and the room suddenly filled with doctors. He felt helpless as they started working on the newborn, he recalled. 
 
 
 
 By the time Klayton was resuscitated, he had gone too long without oxygen, suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and was considered brain dead, Amanda said. He lived for six days. Amanda and Andrew donated his organs, and said his kidneys went to a mother of two. 
 
 “We tried to fit a world of love into that little short time,” Amanda said, her voice breaking. “We just got as much time as we could.” 
 
 
 
 Today Amanda and Andrew Hanson share a moment with baby Klayton, who lived for six days in April 2013. 
 
 It was the first patient Dr. Hodges had lost since he started delivering babies in 2002, a death he found incredibly traumatic, he said. The delivery is always on his mind. 
 
 But a few months later, Andrew and Amanda were back in his office. To the couple’s shock, Amanda was expecting again — news that was both exciting and scary. 
 
 “I couldn’t believe it. We were still both mourning, we hadn’t really moved past (Klayton’s death),” Andrew said. 
 
 Just 10 months after enduring the death of their firstborn, they were back at St. Luke’s Hospital, where Dr. Hodges was once again ready to deliver their son. Andrew had an eerie feeling like they had never left. 
 
 “Right up to the moment he came out, I was scared that something bad was going to happen,” Amanda recalled. 
 
 The labor went much quicker this time around, with Amanda feeling Klayton’s presence in the delivery room as she gave birth to his brother Karson. 
 
 
 
 Today After so much heartache for the couple, there was joy on Feb. 21 as their son Karson was born. He was healthy and had a good strong cry. 
 
 “When Andy cut the cord, (the baby) let out… just this battle cry of, ‘I’m here,’” Dr. Hodges, 50, recalled. “Andrew looked up at me and he had tears streaming down his eyes… and he walked around and gave me a big hug. It was a good closure." 
 
 That’s when maternity photographer Sarah Ledford of ShutterHappy Photography snapped the embrace. 
 
 “I was crying and the doctor was crying and the nurses — it was amazing,” Ledford said. “Everything bad that had happened had just been lifted off of every single person involved.” 
 
 The moment took her breath away, she wrote on her Facebook page, where she posted the photo. It has since been shared more than 15,000 times and received more than a quarter million “likes.” 
 
 “I was just so happy. So, so happy. Relieved,” Andrew said. “I knew that moment was going to come and I was going to break down and bawl.” 
 
 Today Amanda and Andrew Hanson hold their son Karson, who is now 4 months old. 
 
 Four months later, Karson is a “smiley and happy” healthy little boy, his parents said. His middle name is Klayton, in honor of his late brother. 
 
 “Some days, it’s still a roller coaster,” Amanda said. “Looking at Karson, I try to imagine where Klayton would be at this point and some days it just hits me like a ton of bricks that he’s not here. I just wish he was.” 
 
 Follow A. Pawlowski on Google+ and Twitter. ||||| A powerful photograph of a baby's birth is going viral, both for the happiness it conveys and for the amazing story behind it. 
 
 The photo shows Andrew Hanson hugging Dr. Bryan Hodges shortly after the birth of his son, reports Today.com. It isn't the first time a moment like this has taken place between the two, which is what makes the photo so special. 
 
 The photography studio was in the delivery room 10 months prior to the photograph with the same mother, father and doctor. However, the child never took his first breath at delivery, for unknown and unexpected reasons. 
 
 The couple was shocked to find out they were pregnant again, so soon after, especially because of the trouble they had getting pregnant the first time. They think their first son was at work in the conception, photographer Sarah Ledford said. 
 
 The couple calls the birth a miracle because of the surprise pregnancy. The photo of the rainbow baby, as births after a miscarriage or stillborn birth are called, perfectly captures the joy and relief for both father and doctor immediately after the successful birth at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise, Idaho, in February. 
 
 Karson is happy and healthy, reports Today.com. His parents gave him Klayton as his middle name, in honor of his brother who died far too soon. 
 
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– When Andrew Hanson heard his son, Karson, cry for the first time, "it was like he knew that we needed to hear him," he tells the Today Show. The new father grabbed the man who’d just delivered his son safely, Dr. Bryan Hodges, and both men dissolved into tears in an image that's since gone viral. Karson's birth was bittersweet: The year before, the joy of the Hansons' first son's birth ended in tragedy, making Karson what's considered a rainbow baby, explains WWBT—a birth that follows a miscarriage or newborn death. This time around, mom Amanda says she felt the presence of her firstborn in the delivery room. The Hansons had suffered fertility issues for two-plus years before getting pregnant, but despite a normal pregnancy baby Klayton wasn’t breathing when he was born. By the time he was resuscitated, Klayton was brain dead; He died six days later. "We tried to fit a world of love into that little short time. We just got as much time as we could," Amanda says. Now four months old, Karson is healthy and happy. His middle name? Klayton. "Looking at Karson, I try to imagine where Klayton would be at this point and some days it just hits me like a ton of bricks that he’s not here," says Amanda. "I just wish he was." (A woman in Pennsylvania recently had her own miracle birth.)