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- [Narrator] Hannah Sheriff was in labor,

ready to meet her fifth child,but something was wrong.

- I looked up at my nurseand I said, "I'm not okay",

so I feel like I'mgonna faint or pass out.

The room just began narrowing.

- [Narrator] Then, thebaby's heart rate dropped.

- At that moment itbecame, "everybody jump on

"and let's go we gota big-time emergency."

- [Narrator] The staffraced Hannah to the OR

for an emergency C-section.

Her husband, Jacob, was close behind.

- Fear hadn't set in yet, until I walked

into the operating roomand saw what was going on.

- I opened up the uterus,

there was just bloodeverywhere, everywhere.

- And then I see him come outand he doesn't look like...

I mean he's dead.

- A limp, no heart rate, nothing.

- [Narrator] Immediately, theteam started CPR on the baby,

a boy the couple had named Urias.

- Everything within me wanted to reach up,

go to hold him and tell himeverything was gonna be okay.

- I got laser-focused on just prayer.

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- [Narrator] Jacob alsotexted their family to pray,

as with each passingminute, Urias' chances

for survival were slipping away.

- After about 10 minutes,

if you don't have a fetal heart rate,

it's just a futile effort.

- [Narrator] Although thecritical 10-minute mark passed,

the team kept trying.

Finally, they got a pulse,

but the baby had now been

without oxygen or bloodflow for 20 minutes.

- It was just this, almostthis squaring away with,

"Okay, God where are we?"

"Where are you?"

- [Narrator] Unable to breathe on his own,

Urias was intubated andprepped to be life-flighted

to a hospital in Plano,Texas, 80 miles away.

Hannah would have to stay behind to heal

from her surgery and loss of blood.

- She said you go with him,you need to be with him.

- [Narrator] By the time Urias arrived

at Texas Health Presbyterian,

he had started having seizures.

Neonatologist, Doctor Eduardo Perez,

explains Hannah had suffereda placental abruption.

- He was born in dire straits,

severely compromised because of the

premature detachment of the placenta.

- [Narrator] Placed inNICU, Urias was diagnosed

with hypoxic-ischemicencephalopathy, brain damage caused

by a lack of oxygen and blood.

- He had this severe form,the one that we consider

that is at high risk ofhaving long-term delays

in terms of development.

- He most likely is gonnahave cerebral palsy.

You could probably expectseizures most of his life.

He may never be able to feed himself.

He may never be able to walk.

He may never be able to talk.

- [Narrator] The best doctors could do

was put him on a 72-hourcooling treatment to lower

his body temperature totry to minimize the damage.

Even then, there was little hope.

- 40% they don't make it, because you know

it's so severe and so devastating.

- It's just one punch after another.

I can't control anything,but I can trust God.

I don't feel it, likesome emotional thing,

it was a determination and a commitment,

I'm gonna trust God.

- [Narrator] On duty that night,

was nurse, Latricia Bell,a monitor told her the baby

was still having seizuresdespite medications.

Then, later that night,Urias opened his eyes.

- He had been laying so still

and for him to open up his eyes,

looking around, this was a big deal.

- [Narrator] Quickly,she went to get Jacob.

Seeing Urias' eyes for the first time,

Jacob pleaded with God to heal his son.

- (sighs) It's like I couldhear their voices again

what they're saying about him

and I just remembered don'tbe afraid, believe only.

- [Narrator] After Jacob finished praying

and left, Nurse Bell saysshe and Urias weren't alone.

- I felt such a warmth.

Every hair on my body stood up.

I knew that I was in the presence of God.

He was right there at that moment.

I looked at the monitors and there

was no more seizures,that was the end of it.

- [Narrator] The next day,doctors released Hannah

to see her baby boy.

- That was probably the hardest thing,

is seeing him lay there it's like

I couldn't just reach down and grab him.

And I felt like allcontrol was just ripped

out from underneath me.

- [Narrator] That night, thecouple asked their church

and people on social media to pray.

- If you're gonna pray, pray this,

if God's Word says, "wespeak and we believe",

then I'm gonna speakand I'm gonna believe.

- [Narrator] Over the next few days,

Urias showed more signs of improvement,

his EEG showing normal brain activity.

By day six, he was breathing on his own.

- That was extremely reassuring.

That's a happy surprise.

- [Narrator] Finally, Hannah held Urias

for the first time, he was one week old.

- All the emotionsprobably hit me the most

in that moment, because it's all I wanted,

just to have him close,and to tell him like,

"We're gonna get through this.

"We made it this far Urias."

- Here he is.

- [Narrator] At 3 weeks old,

Urias was cleared to go home.

Over the next year, he hit allhis developmental milestones.

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Then, at his one-year checkupwith the neurologist...

- He said, "I have onlyhad a couple other cases

"where people have made a full recovery

"and I'm just tellingyou, he's one of them".

- [Narrator] Today, Uriasis still the healthy,

energetic, happy littleboy they prayed for.

- [Nurse Bell] You care about miracles,

but God let me see that one.

- Even in moments where I don't feel him,

I can't see him, hisfaithfulness doesn't change.