COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Doctors say there was a Christmas miracle in Colorado Springs after a woman and her newborn died during labor on Christmas Eve and then were revived.

After her water broke at 5 a.m. on Dec. 24, Tracey Hermanstorfer and her husband went to Memorial Hospital thinking it would be a routine delivery just like it was with their other two sons.

Everything was going as expected until Hermanstorfer went into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing during labor.

Doctors thought she had died after attempts to resuscitate her failed.

"She was dead. She had no heartbeat, no breathing. She was as gray as her sweat suit. No signs of life," said Dr. Stephanie Martin, the director of maternal-fetal medicine at Memorial Hospital.

"I sat there with my wife's hand in mine, ice cold," said Mike Hermanstorfer. "She was completely and totally blue."

Doctors worked fast to try and save the baby by performing an emergency c-section -- with no anesthesia -- in the delivery room.

Then when the infant came out, he weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces and was 19 inches long. But he wasn't breathing either.

"Half of my family was laying there in front of me ... there's no other way to say it but ... dead," said Mike.

Immediately after the delivery, Tracey started breathing again and her pulse came back.

Doctors then worked on the baby.

"The first time I held Coltyn, he still wasn't breathing," Mike said. "They actually got him started while he was in my hands. I was literally there for his first breath. What more of a present could you ask for?"

Both mom and baby, named Coltyn, went home on Monday with no complications.

"There's only one explanation for having either one of them, let along both of them here," said Mike. "It's just an absolute miracle."

Doctors at Memorial Hospital said going into cardiac arrest during birth for young healthy mothers is rare, but when it does happen, there is hardly ever a positive outcome. After running multiple tests, doctors still don't know what sent Tracey into cardiac arrest and what brought both mom and baby back to life.

Coltyn's original due date was Jan. 5.