The Miracle Child...

Several months back we discovered a young friend of ours, Holly Jo Hiatt, was with child.  Holly has been a part of our lives since she was about eight.  I had officiated her and her husband Dakota's wedding ceremony a little less than two years ago..  This was to be their second child.  Their first child, Blakeley, is a beautiful healthy child of eleven months.

From the beginning though, the doctors did not expect matters to fair as well for their new child.  There was not much movement and the ultra sounds didn't offer much promise either.  They didn't expect the baby to make it to full term and if he did, he would not survive long outside the womb. Since she chose to carry the child, the doctors basically instructed her to go home and "let nature take its course."  The prognosis was bleak.

The expected due date was late September.  Kim and I were awakened by a phone call at about 11:30 pm a week ago last Thursday.  Holly had gone into labor and was being rushed to Tulsa for an emergency C-Section  The prognosis was bleak.  We both prayed and posted unspoken prayer requests on FB, then Kim headed to Tulsa to be by Holly and her family's side during what seemed to be developing into a very dark moment in their lives.

I went to sleep that night fully expecting to be awakened to grim news.  I was awakened by Kim about 5:30 the next morning.  Surprisingly the news was not quite so grim after all.  The baby, John Brantley, was most definitely not out of the woods yet, but he was alive.  He has spent the last week or so in NICU hooked up to feeding tubes, breathing mask. and such, but they are slowly weaning off that.

Kim just called Holly and informed her I was writing a blog and wanted to know what his prognosis.  holly responded, "He is a normal. healthy, beautiful little boy."  I am just now getting ready to go see him for the first time.  Pretty darn excited!  God is good...