Thank you for joining us in continuing to pray for Jonah’s healing! With so many people praying and wanting updates, I figured it was time to make a support page so everyone can get all the info! Please share with your friends and family and anyone that’s been praying for Jonah too - the more support our little guy has, the better!

Jonah’s story:

Jonah was born October 7, 2024 with the umbilical cord wrapped tightly around his neck causing a lack of oxygen to his brain. Doctors spent 8 minutes working to resuscitate him to bring him back to us. He then began having seizures and needed a breathing tube to keep him alive. 

Jonah was rushed to Akron Children’s NICU and was placed on a cooling table for the next 72 hours to prevent further damage to his brain. 

10/11/24 - Doctors reviewed Jonah’s MRI and essentially told us to start making arrangements for the following week because they did not think he would make it out of the NICU, much less breathe on his own

10/13/24 - While we were getting Jonah out of his bed to hold him we thought we saw him opening his eyes and didn’t know if it was a twitch or intentional. Throughout this whole week, Jonah would begin to open his eyes more and more along with breathing over his breathing tube settings on his own!

10/19/24 - Jonah was extubated! We were all so nervous, but his doctor was so confident in him and we’re so blessed that she believed in him so much 

10/21/24 - Jonah got off all breathing support and started breathing room air!

Jonah hadn’t had any seizures since the first couple days of life so we began to start weaning him off his seizure medication (and thankfully haven’t had any seizures since!)

We worked really hard to take a pacifier to work toward a bottle, but that was proving to be a longer play and the only thing holding us up in the NICU. Jonah then received a gtube, which is a feeding tube button in his stomach to allow him to be fed and work on the bottle on Jonah’s time

After 42 days, we finally left the NICU! Jonah is nothing short of a miracle and we are so blessed to see God’s hand on every single day of Jonah’s life.

Jonah has been in PT, OT, and feeding therapies which have all been so helpful for his development.

At 6 months, Jonah underwent an EMU (overnight stay at the hospital to monitor for seizures) and his neurologist said his results were extremely remarkable - Jonah has completely normal brain activity and she sees him as a low risk for seizures
 

Jonah is improving each day, but it’s not without its struggles. We ask for constant prayers over Jonah that God will continue giving him the strength to fight and provide a complete brain healing for our sweet boy.

We are currently in the process of figuring out funding for additional therapies and treatments to help Jonah. Soon, we plan to get him started with HBOT, stem cell therapy, and ABM therapies - we'll share more about those in coming posts!