A 10-year-old girl named Miracle Moore lived up to her name after she bravely helped her pregnant mother deliver her baby sister at home.

When Viola Fair, 30, from Jennings, Missouri, went into labor three weeks before her due date, her daughter jumped into action after seeing that there was not enough time to get to the hospital.

Miracle contacted 911 and connected with a dispatcher named Scott Stranghoener who calmly spoke with her through the birthing process, as reported by Today.

The fourth grader unlocked the front door for the emergency responders and stayed on the phone with the operator for nearly 11 minutes as she waited for the ambulance to arrive.

The little girl followed the dispatcher's instructions over the phone and told her mother that she needed to lie down on her back in the center of a bed or on the floor.

Stranghoener then advised Miracle to grab towels or blankets and place them underneath Fair's body as she was struggling to lie on her back.

The mother could be heard screaming in pain in the background while her daughter assured her by saying, "It's ok, mama, it's ok!" before telling Stranghoener, "I think her water broke."

"She's coming! she's coming!" Miracle yelled, firmly demanding that her mother needed to lie down. She then saw her baby sister's head and said: "She's here! She's poking out."

"She's out! She's breathing and she's crying now," the daughter told the dispatcher after her mother delivered the baby. Stranghoener then told advised her to gently wipe off newborn Jayla's mouth and nose.

The youngster made sure the umbilical cord was not wrapped around Jayla's neck before she wrapped her in a clean towel and covered her head, per the dispatcher's instructions.

"I learned pretty quick that we had a serious situation." Stranghoener told NBC news affiliate KSDK News. "We have a set of protocols that we follow, and she followed all of my instructions to a 'T' and did an amazing job."

Fair also said that the entire experience "was definitely a miracle because once I had the baby, she came out, I couldn’t really grab her and pick her up, and then Miracle came and she wrapped her up in a towel".

"She wiped her off and rubbed her back a little bit, so she could cry. So she was really helpful. I am very thankful," the mother said of her daughter.

Following the successful delivery, Miracle revealed at an event - where she was awarded certificates for her achievement - that she wants to become a uniformed paramedic in the future.

According to the New York Post, she also added that the best part of the entire experience was getting to be the first person who saw Jayla.

Well done to this hero!

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A Utah woman has given birth to her son and daughter-in-law's baby daughter.

Nancy Hauck, 56, brought her own granddaughter into the world after offering to act as a surrogate for her son Jeff Hauck and his wife Cambria.

In an interview with People, the family opened up about their unconventional arrangement.

Jeff and Cambria - who were raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - explained that they had always wanted a big family.

"We always had in our mind that we wanted four to six — whatever the Lord would bless us with, is what we would always say," Cambria told the outlet.

However, her infertility issues threatened to throw their plans off course. It took them four years and a round of IVF to conceive their first set of twins, Vera Ayva, now four.

After that, the couple - who still had five fertilized embryos from their IVF round - welcomed another set of twins, sons Diesel and Luca, now 13 months.

However, after complications with the birth of her sons, Cambria was forced to undergo a hysterectomy meaning she could no longer carry any more children despite still having three fertilized embryos.

"We wanted to give them all a chance at life," she said, adding: "We both decided that we would just move forward in faith."

When Nancy volunteered as a surrogate, the couple initially thought it wouldn't be possible due to her age. However, after consulting with fertility expert Dr. Russell Foulk, the family decided to go ahead with the embryo transfer.

They discovered that despite her advanced age, Nancy was still in perimenopause, meaning her body was still producing the hormones necessary to carry a baby.

The family felt like the pregnancy was "meant to be".

Nine months later, their fifth child - baby girl Hannah - was born.

Reflecting on the "beautiful moment" of watching his mom give birth to his daughter, Jeff questioned: "How many people get to watch their mom give birth?"

Meanwhile, Nancy described the labor as "a remarkable and spiritual experience", adding: "Everything went perfectly and we are feeling so blessed to have her in our family."

Congratulations to the family!

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A woman from Utah has made headlines after revealing she will be carrying her son and daughter-in-law's baby - at the age of 56.

Nancy Hauck made the decision to act as the surrogate for her 32-year-old son, Jeff, and his wife, Cambria, who is 30. Unfortunately, the couple have been unable to fall pregnant on their own - given that Cambria had to previously undergo a hysterectomy, the Daily Mail reported.

Naturally, the couple was forced to consider other avenues - in fact, they tried IVF for six years, eventually falling pregnant with twins, who are now aged three. The pair had another set of twins, who are almost 12 months, but complications during their birth - due to a condition called placenta accreta - led to Cambria being forced to have her uterus removed, per People.

Cambria told TODAY that this had been a challenging choice to make, saying: "We ended up not wanting to play with my life. Because they didn't know [where the blood was coming from] and they couldn't stop the bleed [...] We were really sad, but we just trusted in the Lord's plan for us and so we went forward with it."

When the pair decided they wanted to add to their brood, Jeff's mom offered to act as surrogate. Though, she didn't realize it could even be a possibility, due to her age.

Hauck told TODAY that she'd had five "successful pregnancies," but that this was over 20 years ago. "I could just feel this calling to offer to carry for them. I knew I was too old. I knew it wasn't going to be possible, even though that's exactly what's happened. I just felt I needed to tell them I would be willing to do it," she stated.

Her daughter-in-law was ecstatic and at peace with the offer, revealing: "We knew that the only way that we could use our embryos was through having someone carry for us. So when Nancy came to us, I know most people would probably be like, 'Oh my gosh, that's crazy,' but it didn't feel like that. There was just so much peace around the whole conversation and around the whole experience."

The baby, who the couple has since revealed will be named Hannah, is due in November this year.

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The parents of a baby girl who survived a stroke in the womb are speaking out about their daughter's "biggest, brightest smile" despite the many challenges she has faced in her short life.

When 27-year-old Amy Cawley was 34-weeks pregnant, she became concerned that she had not felt her baby more in three days. Previous scans showed her unborn daughter was small, but this had not concerned the doctors.

However, after receiving another scan at Poole Hospital, Dorset, England, Amy was told her baby's heart rate was very low and that she required an emergency c-section.

Amy recalled: "They told me afterward if they had waited another 48 hours, Darcie wouldn’t have made it. It was so scary to think how close we’d come to losing her."

On December 9, 2019, Darcie-May Ferris was born weighing 4lb 7oz to proud parents Amy and 26-year-old prison officer Alex Ferris.

Sadly, moments after Darcie arrived, medics noticed that both her arms were discolored and covered in black birthmark-like lesions. Father Alex said: "The atmosphere in the room after she was delivered was very strange. They told us her arms didn’t look normal."

They transferred Darcie to neo-natal intensive care and then transferred to Southampton General Hospital, in Hampshire, where specialist staff were more equipped to deal with burns and skin grafts.

Amy and Alex - still unable to hold their newborn daughter - were later told that Darcie had suffered a stroke in the womb, which was caused by a blood clot traveling from her shoulder.

Amy said: "We don’t know why it happened or whether it could happen again if Darcie has a baby sister or brother.

"I had my placenta tested to see if it could be a genetic problem, but the tests did not come back with anything.

"Darcie was very heavily sedated for the first 10 days of her life, so she was not in pain, but she was in an incubator which made it really difficult because we couldn’t hold her.

"We couldn’t cuddle her until she was eight days old which was so hard. We wanted desperately to bond with her, but not being able to touch her made it more difficult."

As a result of the clots, Darcie was placed on medication in an attempt to thin her blood and break up the clots. At first, it seemed like the treatment was working, as Darcie's left arm started to go back to its normal color a couple of weeks after she was born. However, it was too late for the fingers on her left hand.

Alex explained: "Her thumb and index finger on her left hand were okay, but she had three black fingers, and it became clear they were not going to last."

One of the parent's most difficult moments came when some of Darcie's fingers fell off as they were giving her a bath. Alex recalled:

"We had to let them fall off. In fact, we were bathing her one day and a couple of her fingers just fell off. We had been expecting it to happen, but it was horrible, and we didn’t really know how to deal with it.

"Her fingers looked like little sultanas.

“Her first operation was to have those tidied up when she was six weeks old. The skin had come away and left the bone, so the surgeon had to trim the bone back to allow the skin to heal over it."

The focus then turned to Darcie’s right arm, which didn't appear to be healing as well as the left.

"It wasn’t clear what the best option would be – either to amputate or to play the waiting game and see if it healed itself, because a baby’s skin has a better ability to heal than an adult’s," Alex said, adding: "The surgeons decided to leave it a bit longer, but it was awful because her skin was a greeny-grey color. The skin had gone necrotic, which is where the tissue and cells start to die, and smelled really bad."

Then came some good news. After spending Christmas and New Year's in hospital, Alex and Amy were finally allowed to bring baby Darcie home in January.

However, the family was not out of the woods. Back home, they continued to change their daughter's dressings every day, and would have still have to go into hospital for weekly appointments, where doctors monitored Darcie’s progress and carried out gradual amputations on her right arm.

Alex said surgeons chose not to remove Darcie's whole arm in one go because they were hopeful that the skin would heal itself, and they wanted to give her as much length as possible.

Amy said: "The worst thing was if she was going to have an amputation, she would have to fast from 2am the day before and she didn’t understand that, obviously. She just knew she was hungry and not getting fed.

"We did that for four weeks, and they were gradually making her right arm shorter. The fingers on her right hand had been dead for so long that they fused into her palm, so it was like one big block of dead skin."

After six operations, baby Darcie now has just her thumb and index finger on her left hand, and her right arm has been amputated from the forearm. Sadly, she will still need to undergo further operations on her right arm until the deteriorated skin is completely removed and replaced with healthy skin grafts.

Now, Darcie-May's parents are looking to the future and are focusing on physiotherapy. To help with the costs of her ongoing care, they have set up a GoFundMe, which has raised currently raised more than £6,200 from friends, family, and well-wishers of their £10,000 target.

Alex said: "There are a lot of unknowns at the moment. We don’t know how much movement she will have in her arms, or whether it will affect her ability to crawl.

"We also don’t know what the impact the stroke will have had until she starts to develop and to learn, so now we’re trying to fundraise via GoFundMe to help her lead as normal a life as possible."

You can donate to help the family by visiting their GoFundMe HERE.

Speaking about his daughter's future using prosthetic limbs, Alex added: "We want to give her the option to have prosthetic limbs when she’s a bit older. The NHS prosthetics are very basic, but there are some amazing prosthetics out there which have grip and movement."

But despite all she has faced, Darcie is still a bright and bubbly baby who is adored by her parents and siblings.

"Darcie is the most amazing little girl with a beautiful smile. She’s developing a little personality now. She knows what she wants and behaves like a little diva," Alex said, adding:

"Her big sisters adore her, and are not fazed by her hands and arms at all. It’s nice that she has them to look out for her, but I think with what she’s gone through, she’s going to have a really thick skin and be able to hold her own."

We wish the family all the best for their future!

A mother from Kansas who became a quadruple amputee following a traumatic birth has shared her advice to other women.

Brie Morgan Bauer, 35, had to undergo an emergency C-section to deliver her third child, Beau, on February 17, 2024, but contracted streptococcal toxic shock syndrome during childbirth.

She had to be put into an induced coma, and while both she and Beau - who was born weighing just 2lb 8oz - survived, she had to undergo a life-changing surgery to amputate both of her arms and legs.

After months of treatment, Brie was finally discharged from the hospital on June 25, and could return home with her husband Reid and their children.

Mother and son both survived the gruelling birth. Credit: Instagram/Brieandbeau

Brie had initially gone to hospital after experiencing "several days of feeling flu-like - body aches and general discomfort", where doctors determined she was in labor despite her being just 27 weeks pregnant.

They made the decision to deliver Beau by C-section, deeming the baby in danger, and Brie ended up losing a lot of blood during the procedure.

A GoFundMe set up for her explained: "The medical team struggled to get oxygen to her fluid-filled lungs and to stop her bleeding. Brie began to suffer from organ failure."

Brie was then placed into a medically-induced coma and her family were hearbreakingly told she was "unlikely to make it through the night".

However, Brie's body fought on, and the following day her lab results revealed that she was battling streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.

The infection was located in her uterus, and doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy, during which they discovered that part of her colon had died, meaning she was forced to undergo her third major surgery in under 72 hours to fit an ostomy.

Brie has undergone months of physiotherapy after having all four limbs amputated. Credit: Instagram/Brieandbeau

While she pulled through the operations, Brie's limbs had begun to be drastically impacted by the life-saving medications she was being given.

The fundraiser explained: "Her hands and feet were turning black from lack of blood flow - amputation discussions were inevitable."

Over the coming weeks, Brie underwent surgery to remove both arms and legs, as well as battling infections and setbacks, and only woke from the coma briefly, when her husband was able to tell her: "Brie, it's Reid. The baby is safe, he's beautiful and looks like you."

Thankfully, Brie managed to survive the gruelling ordeal, and was able to be discharged home, where her neghborhood greeteed her with a welcoming parade.

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Brie revealed the challenges she'd faced on returning home after four months in the hospital, explaining on Instagram: "A lot of people have been asking what it felt like coming home after being in the hospital for four months. Honestly, it felt a bit like returning from a long vacation.

"Seeing my kids every day and sleeping in my own bed has been incredible, but there's still a lot of adjusting to do. Figuring out how to navigate the first floor independently has been quite the challenge.

"Simple tasks like opening drawers or the refrigerator are difficult. I've learned that I can't fit through the doorway into the pantry, which has been particularly frustrating since I've been eating like crazy (thanks, stress), and I hate having to ask people to grab food for me.

"Out of everything, the hardest part has been my inability to hold baby Beau. It's ironic how both Beau and I are hitting milestones at the same time - who will be able to turn over first? Whose hair will grow in first? We're both on a journey of recovery and growth together."

She also recently took to social media to reveal her advice for other expectant mothers.

Brie acknowledged that what she went through is extremely rare, but added: "But with that said, the nurse in me, I wish I were more cognizant of me traveling. I traveled for work and I probaby would have - I don't know if I would have said no or not, but I guess just being pregnant, when you travel, I would say wear a mask, wash your hands constantly, and that's really all we can do."

She also added that she would advise people to get checked out if they begin to feel unwell and not allow their doctors to "brush off" their concerns.

"What I felt that day, I had been kind of sick the day before," she revealed, adding that her provider had told her she'd likely contracted strep orally, which then had a more serious effect on her body as a pregnant person's immune sytem is suppressed.

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