A judge has extended the deadline to keep a young boy on life support.

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Catarina Gonzales asked a judge to extend the deadline to find alternative care for her son.

Tuesday morning, the mother of a 17-month-old, Catarina Gonzales, and her attorneys went to court asking the judge for a temporary restraining order that could keep her son alive.

Before the ruling, doctors at Children's Hospital in downtown Austin planned to disconnect him at midnight.

Travis County Judge Guy Herman announced Emilio will be kept on life support until April 19. That morning, he'll hold a temporary injunction hearing, where witnesses for both sides can give their testimony, and he will decide again whether the child should be kept on life support.

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Emilio Gonzales was born with Leigh's disease, a genetic disorder which is shrinking his brain. The child, who's also blind and deaf, has been at Children's Hospital for three months.

"I just want.. I just want that even though he's like that, I just want to be with him," an emotional Gonzales said after the judge's decision. "And some people may not understand that because I know that some people ain't going through what I'm going through, but I love my son and I would do anything for him."

An ethics committee at the hospital recently decided Emilio's situation is hopeless and decided to take him off life support because they say he is suffering.

But the family's attorney says they have promising new leads which could sustain his life.