Oakley 9 months of pure Joy!!

I haven't post in a long time Brian has been trying to do up dates every now and then.
Our home computer is shot and Oakley and her brothers keep me so busy that I just haven't had time.
Today is the first day that I have taken a few minutes to look at all the babies that I have followed for
so long to see how they are thriving. NAYELIA continues to be an inspiration.
I still can't believe that the survival rate is 50% it seems like it should be so much lower. I see so
many sad out comes over the miracles.

It is without a doubt that each day that I wake up I know that we are blessed with a miracle in our lives.
We went for Oakley's 9 month check up last Friday. She only weighs 14 lbs 2 oz she actually dropped off
the growth chart. The pediatrican assured me that she is healthy and not to worry. That she is just
going to be petite. He told me that in all his years he has never seen a CDH baby do as well as our
Oakley. He also said that he hoped that we knew this Holiday season we have a true Miracle.
Oakley is pulling up and starting to cruise around the furniture holding on. She is not crawling but her
brother Peyton never crawled, I don't think he ever walked he just started out running and hasn't stopped yet!
All three boys are such a huge help daily. I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving next week.
I promise to try and post some pictures soon.

With Love,
Sheree (Oakley's mom)

8 Month's of pure joy

Oakley continues to do well, she amazes us each and every single day. She was very hyper this morning playing with her big brothers. She is still very small for her age but this was expected. We estimate that she weighs around 14 pounds, I could be off a little. She enjoys being read to and also loves the TV show sesame street. Our boys love her so much and she loves each one of them and she will just laugh at them when they are playing with her. As far as the CDH we have had no complications since Oakley has been at Home. We still are very thankful to all the Surgeons / Doctors / and Nurses that helped take care of our little miracle and we know that each one of them played their own special part in helping our little girl become healthy. We are very thankful to have our little blessing and never will forget the ordeal that we went through. So always keep faith you never know when you will be blessed.

Brian Irvin
(Oakley's Daddy)

Still Doing Good

Oakley is now 7 1/2 months old and is doing great. She is around 13 pounds which is small, but the doctors say that she may always be small and petite. She likes to lay on a blanket in the floor and she rolls all over the place trying to get things. She had to go for her 6 month checkup a few weeks ago with her surgeon and everything continues to be fine. We have had little to no complications with our little miracle. We had to attend my Grandfathers funeral this past week and we had many people that just wanted to meet Oakley, because she had been on there prayer list at Grandads church, but they had never met her. We thank God first for our miracle and everyone that said a prayer for our blessed little girl. She is proof that prayers are still answered. Our computer at home crashed so it is very hard for us to keep the blog updated like we should, and we apologize for this. If you are new to our Blog and you are going through the CDH nightmare our hearts are with each of you and we pray that you never give up hope and that you stay close to God and believe in the miracle of prayer. May God bless each one of you and your family.

Love, Brian Irvin

6 months old

Oakley turned 6 months old today and she is doing great. She is the queen of the house and I think that she knows it. She loves to lay on her stomach, when we lay her in her baby bed she immediately roles to her stomach and then just stares at you. She has been a blessing and we know this and we thank God for all of it. We know that without him none of this would be possible. Oakley continues to amaze us each day at what a wonderful baby she is. Oakley is still very petite and probably always will be, she weighs a little more than 11 pounds now. Oakley is a wonderful sleeper and only cries when it is time to eat. Our family has been blessed and we all know this and will never take our little miracle for granite. We thank each one of you that have read about our child and have prayed for her. We continue to pray each day for any of you that are going through CDH with your child, may God bless each one of you like he has blessed us.

Brian Irvin and Family

5 Month's Old

Oakley is now 5 months old and is doing great, between Oakley and her three brothers we are staying very busy. Oakley is growing, she is now around 11 pounds and is the happiest baby that you have ever met. She has the most beautiful laugh and the greatest personallity, we have been truly blessed to have such a wonderful daughter. For the people that read our Blog that are going through what we have with CDH, our hearts go out to you. The one thing that you cannot do is give up, we were very lucky with Oakley and blessed that we got through this as easily as we did, but the one thing that never changed was our faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We prayed and prayed everyday, along with friends and family, our church and church's that we don't even know how they new about Oakley prayed for our daughter, and we were blessed with wonderful doctors, but without God, none of this happens and we know this. May God bless each person that reads this, and thank you for your prayers

Sincerely, Brian Irvin and our Family