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I am a blessed grandmother of two young girls and two young boys. My daughter is an awesome mother. Three year old Ryleigh, the second oldest granddaughter, had a knack for getting into anything and everything. Before she was able to walk she figured out how to pull the kitchen drawers out to create a ladder to get on the counter to get in the upper cabinets. She has consistently defeated cabinet and door locks. She also learned how to climb out of a locked and screened window of a double wide mobile home. Extra care has always been taken to keep a special eye on her.

In August 2008 Ryleigh figured out how to get past a latched gate and into a 5 foot deep above-ground swimming pool. She did not know how to swim. Her stepdad found her in the pool after she had not been seen for five minutes. He immediately tried to recusitate Ryleigh while her terribly shaken mother tried to call 9-11. My daughter saw her small frail child beyond blue. Her entire body was gray. Rescue personnel tried desperately to revive her but little Ryleigh kept slipping away.

The doctor at the children's hopital was going to pronounce her dead, but earlier in the day he lost a two year old drowning victim. He gave Ryleigh a try. She was brain dead and her heart kept stopping even after two shocks. The doctor put Ryleigh on life support and told my daughter to not expect her to live. He said he had never seen a case as bad as hers live. My daughter mentioned that Ryleigh was floating face up. The doctor said that was impossible, so she called Ryleigh's stepdad to be sure. He said that she was flat on her back and her arms wer hanging in the water, like someone would look if they were being held while floating on their back.

Periodically, through the next 24 hours, they would take her off of life support to see if she could hold her own. She could not. Finally, they took her off of the machines a final time and Ryleigh continued to breathe on her, she sat up and wanted mommy to play with her. She was released within two days of the drowning with not one side effect. No brain damage and not even pneumonia.

When Ryleigh got to her other grandma's house she saw a picture of Jesus. Ryleigh pointed to it and said, "That's my daddy." My daughter said, "Do you know who that is?" Ryleigh, who has been to Sunday school all of three times said, "Yes mommy. He was in the pool with me,"

Tear-jerking testimony from a purely innocent three year old child that God is always with us!
She even spread that life saving testimony to pediatricians all across the Phoenix valley. Ryleigh has been labeled by the doctors as "the miracle baby."

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