Tiffany Murray is relieved her first daughter is out of the NICU. The tiny champion, Miracle, who is currently five months old, was admitted to the intensive care unit for four months after being born at twenty-three weeks.
Murray, who already has four sons, told Good Morning America, “When I was in the hospital, that’s when her name hit me. I kept on telling God, ‘I need this baby more than she needs me.’ And then when she came out, the doctor said, ‘What is her name?’ I said, ‘She’s my Miracle.'”
She described how a difficult experience during her pregnancy “made Miracle come a little early.”
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The 42-year-old explained that one day when she woke up, she began having contractions and assumed it was just the baby moving. However, when she got to the hospital, they informed her that she was already 1 centimeter dilated.
Miracle Khamyri, weighing just one pound, six ounces, was born at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, New York, on April 2.
Miracle came early, but with the support of medical professionals and nurses, she was able to grow in the NICU.
The pleased mother recalled, “The doctors that had her, the nurses that had her, they handled Miracle as if she was their own child. They all loved her. They all cared for her.”
Murray added that Miracle needed blood transfusions, medicine, and CPAP therapy while in the NICU due to a heart murmur. Now, the infant no longer has a heart murmur and weighed eight pounds, five ounces at the time she was discharged on August 21. Her acid reflux prescription is all she needs.
On Miracle’s discharge day, approximately 30 hospital employees lined the corridors to give Murray and her “most beautiful blessing” a “clap out” in a heartwarming ceremony.
Richmond University Medical Center expressed joy at Miracle’s homecoming in a statement to GMA, “We are beyond thrilled to have Miracle join our family of NICU graduates. Our staff of physicians, nurses and medical professionals developed a deep bond with Miracle and her family over her time with us.” “Miracle, her mom and her siblings are forever part of our RUMC family, and while we miss her, we are overjoyed that she is now home where she truly belongs.”
Meanwhile, Murray encouraged other parents with children in the NICU, saying, “Let the doctors heal your baby. God is over them, and just take it one day at a time with your child. Just go to them, visit them.”
