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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: When they feared losing their newborn, they prayed for a miracle.

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Speaker 2: Then he pulled through. Written by Heather Riggleman, ran by

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Speaker 2: Julie Provost. When they feared losing their newborn, they prayed

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Speaker 2: for a miracle, and then he pulled through. As moms,

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Speaker 2: we dream in the quiet hours, rocking our babies to sleep,

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Speaker 2: pacing the floor during midnight feedings, imagining who they'll become.

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Speaker 2: We picture scrape knees and first days of school. We

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Speaker 2: don't imagine hospital rooms, machines, humming, or whispered conversations about survival.

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Speaker 2: Nothing prepared Sydney Files or husband Harrison for the roller

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Speaker 2: coaster that would follow the birth of their son, Cooper.

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Speaker 2: Her pregnancy had been fairly normal until his sixteen week

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Speaker 2: appointment changed everything. Blood work revealed placental insufficiency, meaning her

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Speaker 2: baby wasn't growing as he should. She was placed under

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Speaker 2: strict monitoring and warned that she was at high risk

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Speaker 2: for preclampsia. It was extremely stressful, Sidney said, it felt

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Speaker 2: like a ticking time bomb. At twenty three weeks, she

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Speaker 2: was admitted to Avant Health Orlando was severe preclampsia. One

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Speaker 2: week later, her son's heart rate began to drop. Doctors

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Speaker 2: moved quickly. At just twenty four weeks and four days,

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Speaker 2: Cooper was delivered via emergency sea section, weighing one pound

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Speaker 2: two and a half ounces. The delivery was fast, overwhelming,

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Speaker 2: and absolutely terrifying. Sydney shared. Everything happened so suddenly that

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Speaker 2: there were moments when it felt like both my life

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Speaker 2: and my baby's life were on the line. From the beginning,

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Speaker 2: Cooper's life was wrapped in prayer. His parents watched monitors,

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Speaker 2: learned medical language they never wanted to know, and whispered

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Speaker 2: prayers over a body so small it fit in the

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Speaker 2: palle of their hands. Then came the moment every parent fears.

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Speaker 2: Just ten days in, doctors told Sidney and her husband Harrison,

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Speaker 2: the Cooper's body was shutting down. They said there was

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Speaker 2: nothing else they could do. They were invited to hold

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Speaker 2: their son for the first time, believing it might also

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Speaker 2: be the last. So they prayed for a miracle. We

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Speaker 2: prayed for a miracle and surrendered everything to God's will,

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Speaker 2: Sidney said, And somehow, against every expectation, Cooper stayed. Cooper

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Speaker 2: kept fighting and proved everyone wrong. She said. The miracle

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Speaker 2: didn't come all at once. It came in pieces and

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Speaker 2: breaths and strength that slowly returned. There were more hurdles,

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Speaker 2: a feeding tube, a tracheotomy, a medical crisis that revealed

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Speaker 2: a hole in his heart that was later repaired, but

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Speaker 2: each step forward felt like another answered prayer. Now sixteen

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Speaker 2: months old, Cooper is still in the picu, but he

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Speaker 2: is alive, growing, laughing, loving bluey books and music. He's

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Speaker 2: living proof of miracles and answered prayers. Looking back, Sydney

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Speaker 2: says she learned to see God in the smallest details.

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Speaker 2: Those tiny steps are evidence of God's faithfulness, she said,

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Speaker 2: mom to mom, Cooper is living proof that miracles don't

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Speaker 2: always look like instant healing. Sometimes they look like survival.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they look like a study progress. Sometimes they look

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Speaker 2: like a child who wasn't supposed to make it. Still here,

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Speaker 2: still fighting, still loved, Still a miracle, Psalm one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty eight, twenty three. This is the bowlers doing

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Speaker 2: is marvelous in our eyes. New York police officer rennites

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Speaker 2: with woman he helped on a cold winter day. Written

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Speaker 2: by MICHAELA. Gordoni read by Juli Provost. A woman was

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Speaker 2: struggling to carry her groceries in the cold when someone

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Speaker 2: sofered need. A police officer helped the woman, and it

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Speaker 2: touched her deeply. He went beyond what he was called

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Speaker 2: to do. It was December thirteenth when Ria Holmes was

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Speaker 2: carrying her box home from the food pantry. I knew

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Speaker 2: that my box was heavy, Rhea said. I decided to

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Speaker 2: put it on my head to carry it that way. Syracuse,

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Speaker 2: New York, police officer Jamie Pasteral spotted her from his

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Speaker 2: car while he was filling out paperwork for an investigation.

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Speaker 2: It appears she was out of breath, attired. Jamie said,

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Speaker 2: I drove over to her and said, ma'am, do you

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Speaker 2: need a ride? Immediately she broke down. Ria said the

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Speaker 2: tears came freely because she had asked God for help

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Speaker 2: and knew he was going to deliver. Before Jamie dropped

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Speaker 2: her off at home, she asked to stop by the

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Speaker 2: cemetery where her husband and her father who passed away

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Speaker 2: earlier this year, are buried. After the meaningful visit, Jamie

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Speaker 2: stabbed as selfie of Ria hugging him, which went viral.

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Speaker 2: You don't know what you did that day, Sir Ria

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Speaker 2: told him when they renun ID a few days later.

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Speaker 2: I hope this reminds people to take care of each other,

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Speaker 2: Jamie said, adding that he's not unlike other officers go

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Speaker 2: out of their way for the simple things. I thought

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Speaker 2: nothing of it, but it meant so much to her.

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Speaker 2: It opened my eyes. He's not just an officer, Ria said,

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Speaker 2: He's a human and he met my human needs. Little

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Speaker 2: kindness goes a long way. We should all be a

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Speaker 2: little like Jamie, don't you think.

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