We often hear the arrival of a new baby referred to as “the miracle of childbirth,” but some births defy such staggering odds that it’s hard to describe them as anything but miraculous.
Sometimes, this is due to extreme circumstances that make it seem like the baby won’t make it. This can be because they were born from material that was frozen for decades, or because they were so dangerously premature that their survival seemed impossible.
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But in other cases, that grim outlook comes as a result of a hardship that has befallen one of the parents. And in such cases like the one we’ll be exploring today, those hopeful parents faced the possibility that they’d never be able to have children at all.
However, one mom’s story is a perfect example of why we should never say never.
At 2:22 am on February 22, 2022, Judah Grace Spear was born in delivery room number two at Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, North Carolina.
Although she’s strangely not the only baby who was born with such perfect “Twosday” timing, her birth is even rarer than that incredibly fortuitous coincidence would suggest.
And that’s because her mother Aberli knew there was a serious chance she’d never be able to have her at all.
This is due to the fact that she had previously survived Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which inhibits the body’s ability to fight off infections.
As People reported , this is one of the many cancer variants that often require rounds of radiation therapy and chemotherapy to treat.
Aberli endured her cancer battle for six years before she had finally beaten the disease in 2020.
But in that time, she was made aware that her treatments reduced the likelihood that she would be able to become pregnant.
So when baby Judah did arrive at the satisfying time she did, she was given a name that means “praise” and reflected how much her birth defied the odds.
As a representative from Cone Health wrote in a Facebook post, “Baby Judah is an answered prayer for her family.”
And since we’re not going to get another day that can be written as 2/22/22 until 400 years from now, Judah’s arrival was one-in-a-million for a couple of reasons.
Judah’s grandmother Kristi Engelbrecht has reported that both mother and child are in good health, saying, “Judah is a reminder of all things good, God’s promises kept, and a community pulling together for the good of one another.”
h/t: People
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