A Mother's Unwavering Faith: Miraculous Recovery of Baby Ezra

Miracles big and small happen around us every day. All it takes is a bit of openness in our eyes and hearts to see them. When Trisha Long Bell from the United States found out she was pregnant with her second child, her joy knew no bounds.

"The pregnancy went as perfectly as I could have hoped. Everything was fine, and all the tests came back normal," she recalls.

However, complications arose during labor, and the doctors soon realized something was terribly wrong with the newborn. "My Ezra was born without a heartbeat, no pulse, and no oxygen to his brain," Trisha shares in a heart-wrenching Facebook post, which garnered millions of responses and likes.

The doctors were certain that in such a condition, the baby couldn't survive. After several hours on a special ventilator, they asked Trisha to disconnect her son from life support. "But I couldn't bring myself to do it. True, my baby was born without a pulse, and oxygen wasn't reaching his brain, but I chose to listen to my mother-in-law and not take his life from him. None of us have the right to take someone else's life."

According to Trisha, the doctors presented her son's condition as hopeless, urging her to "just pull the plug." "I remember sitting at the hospital, praying and crying. I wanted to fix him, but I felt so helpless. My body failed my son. I felt broken."

Trisha continues to share, her tears palpable even through the keys, as she sat beside Ezra's bed, desperate to find a way to help him, "I finally realized there was something I could do. As his mother, I knew I could provide him with the one thing no one else could—my milk. With my first child, Elijah, I didn't know how to nurse and gave up quickly. But with Ezra, I knew this was what I had to do, no matter how hard it was going to be.

"He was fighting for his life, and this was the only way I could truly give him something of myself. I didn't know if breast milk would affect his condition—it was brain damage, after all. But I had a lot of faith it would help, and that's what I did."

And what do you think—did it help? Absolutely. Although Ezra didn't completely recover from his condition, there was a heavenly hand in the aid he received.

"Today, 14 months later, I know that my milk played a crucial role in my child's recovery from his brain injury," Trisha writes. "The bond we have with our children amazes me to this day. It's amazing how breast milk can impact a child's health in such a way. It's been months since Ezra's incredible recovery, and his progress has surpassed anything the doctors expected," she writes, concluding with gratitude that she didn't heed the doctors' advice and refused to pull the plug.

(Translated from English by Shira Cohen)