A baby boy who was not breathing at birth underwent resuscitation efforts for 20 minutes. During this period, doctors feared brain damage or cerebral palsy, or that he simply wouldn’t survive. Now, almost four years on, he’s as capable as his peers, and his recovery is considered a miracle.
Urias, the youngest child of his parents, Hannah and Jacob Sheriff, of Durant, Oklahoma, was born at Alliance Health Durant on Aug. 31, 2018—the same birthplace as his four siblings.
Hannah, a stay-at-home mom, had no idea what was wrong with her fifth child until she went into active labor.
“I carried him full term, so he was only about nine days early, which is pretty typical for all my pregnancies,” Hannah told The Epoch Times. “[The morning of] my 38-week appointment, I began experiencing a lot of pain.”…