FAITH

It's been way too long time since I updated this blog, but after seing the response her video is having on GodVine, I think its about time. I am so overwhelmed with how many views, likes and comments her video has had. I'm so thankful to my God Almighty for using my family to be the reason of so much praise around the world. I want to share a little more about Faith's story: Faith was a promise to our family. Can you imagine telling your child that God answers prayers, and hearing him pray for years for a baby brother or sister, and nothing happening? What do you say? You say: keep praying, "Keep the Faith" For seven years we prayed and waited for another baby. In August 2009 a minister came to our church for a youth retreat, my husband an I as counselors for the youth group joined them to such event. After a night service of so much blessing and annointing, about 1:00 am we were in the lobby of the dormitories, all the youth was still there just hanging out and talking. Between laughs and conversation, the minister, Rev. Cuautemoc Lopez, approached my husband and I and said: I got word for you sister, but I'll tell you when we arrive back in church the next day, so everyone could hear. I said: No! I want to hear it now! He began talking and said: God has heard your plead and within a year you will conceive a baby in your womb and you will hold this baby in your arms. After he said those words, the prescense of God filled the whole room and I felt in my womb like a tighting sensation, I knew God was working, and I took it as a promise and just believed. Months went by, 3,5,7,9 and we were still believing, people would start wondering if the word the Minister had told us was real, others kept believing with us, even believers would make comments like: "He could've messed up and the word was for someone esle". But we continued to believe, 11 months later and nothing had happened yet, pregnancy test after pregnancy test, month after month. It was until August 2010 that we got a positive test. Praise the Lord!! God is Amazing!! Lots of stuff happened between then and and Janurary 28, when I was exactlly 25 weeks pregnant, but I wont write them in this blog 'cause I want to get to the most important part. I went to a regular prenatal visit and the nurse checked my blood pressure, she dimmed the lights and told me to lay down and asked me how I felt. "I feel fine" I said, then she informed us that my blood pressure was 200/104. I was then told to go directly to our community hospital. I spent the night and the high blood pressure couldn't be normalized. In the morning I had an ultrasound where they discovered I had very low amniotic fluid. I was put in an ambulance and rushed to Spokane Deaconess Medical Center. On my way there I was meditating in the Lord and realizing the scripture I read early that morning was becoming a reality in my life. That morning I had read in Genesis 46: And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied. “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes. If you understand, what I understood that day, then you'd know why I was so confident about what God was about to do in my life. Like Jacob, I was going to a place that I didn't want to go to, and I was afraid to go there, but God would be with me. And the promise I got from this is that he would bring me back with my daughter and that she would be with me 'till the day I die. That's what I read, that's what I believed. I thought I was going to be hopitalized for months, while they monitored my blood pressure, I thought that'd be hard. Little did I know, that same day they would deliver my daughter to save my life, doctors said she had to come out, to normalize my blood pressure. They said I could die, they said my kidneys were already giving up. I held on to the rails of the hospital bed and said, NO! Don't take my baby out, she's too little, let me just lay here for a couple weeks and grow her a little more. Several doctors came in and tried to convince me to deliver her, they said otherwise we'd both die. Die? my promise die? No! God would not break a promise, lot's of people are watching and witnessing this miracle since before it was concieved. I then gave up and decided I needed to do whatever I could to not leave my son without a mommy and save my life. I knew somehow, someway, God would save my baby's life even thou ultrasound estimated she only weighed 13 oz. Faith (by the way, we picked her name even before we knew this was going to happen) Faith, was born by c-section weighing 14 oz. I went thru the worst physical pain of my life during the operation, I felt like the doctors were ripping me open and yanking her out of me. Finally my husband sees her and says to me: "she's little". "How little?" I said. "Very little" he answered. After that, and for a few hours I was so drugged up for the pain that I don't remember but was told that my human self would say to my visitors that I didn't want to name her Faith, because what if she dies? I don't remember saying this, but what I do remember is when the doctor came in and told us Faith won't make it thru the night saying, we were going to wait on the Lord. I also remember lots and lots of people coming to visit us in the hospital and giving us words of encouragement and letting us know they had our backs on this trial, that they would be praying until we brought her home. I remember the doctor telling me that my uterus and insides are so messed up with scar tissue, he said: "I don't even know how you had a baby in there" Well, you and I know how. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the doctors and nurses that took great care of Faith and I, I pray that God continues to give them wisdom and blesses their lifes abundantly. Four and a half months later, we walked out of that hospital and into our home with our healthy baby. Doctors and nurses had predicted she'd come home with monitors, oxygen, a g-tube to be fed, at least an eye surgery, they said she'd be in and out of hospitals for a few years, but to God be all the honor and glory!! A week later, we are at church thanking God with our baby girl. Faith is healthy and didn't need eye surgery, has not been back to a hospital, she's been healthy and growing beautifully. She is now 17 months weighs 15 lbs. She is very smart, understands some directions and imitates sounds and actions, crawls all around the house, praises Jesus with her tambourine in church when she hears music. Haleluyah!! I can go on and on, there's so much more to tell, day by day miracles that we witnessed while she was in the NICU, maybe one day I'll write a book, but for now my biggest joy is to know that my son believes is is sure that God answeres prayers. Please keep sharing Faith's story and giving God all the glory.

Baby Faith

The past few days Faith has been going up and down on her respiration. She will be at a certain setting and her monitor will go off, so the nurse would go to adjust it and then she would be to high or to low. She's been keeping the nurses on thier toes. This morning we finally got a nurse that knows what he's doing and gave her a cleaning of her lifetime. He suctioned her really good and got all of the mocos out that she had in there for a while. He cleaned her up with baby oil, now she looks and smell better. He cleaned her mouth inside and out and took off all the crusties that she had. Now that she's clean, she can show off her new belly button. After she was all settled in it looked like she was doing much better and had her respiration more under control.
We went to Othello yesterday to pick up her big brother becasuse he was homesick and he missed his mommy, so now he is here with us. I know we haven't been posting the last few days but when there's no big changes we really don't have anything to say. We all just have to keep being united and keep praying for Faith. We keep on believing that God will do His will and one day we will testify of His glory and Baby Faith will one day be a great woman of God.... Daddy

Delma Faith Gomez

Well today was yet another good day for baby faith. She gained one more ounce, she's now 1 pound and 2 ounces. She is responding really well to the all the suctions that she gets in her tubes. She wouldnt take them very well before. Her heart rate would drop drasticly and she would stop breathing for a second, but now she doesn't even feel them. The nurses gave her a nickname, they're calling her thumbleina because she's so little. She had a little bit of high sugar but nothing to be alarmed about. There's not much to say because she's been stable for a few days and she's been doing really good and no drastic changes. I feel priviledged to be witness to an ongoing miracle that God has performed right before my very eyes. I cant wait til the day that I can take my baby for the first time to church and testify to everyone the almighty glory of my God. My son Welly is here with us and it's good to see him atleast on the weekeends. It's not easy for him or for us to be away from eachother for so long but we all know that this is not for ever. We serve a God that has his time for everything and I will accept anything that He brings my way. I will serve Him with my all and be forever grateful to Him. Thank you Lord... Daddy

First family picture

Delma Faith is 2 weeks old today. Such a brave girl facing this world and its pains and troubles when should still be growing inside my womb, turning only 27 weeks.

Every day when the doctor calls or walks in the room, I stop breathing, not knowing what he's going to say, but these last few days, when the doctor talks to us, he doesn't know what to say, just that she's doing good, and all I can say is Praise God!!!! Halleluya!! Today was another good day for Faith, they started her back on the milk.

I'll never forget Welly's face when he saw Faith for the first time, he was nervous since he walked in the NICU. It was a miracle they actually let him go in, the rule is no one under 12 can go in, but I asked nicely and they made an exception. Welly's eyes opened wide when he saw her and the first word he said was WOW!, he told her he loved her and thats about it. They said good bye, its sad but they wont see each other again for a few months. After we left he had questions, like why are her eyes open, would they be open if she was still inside?
Well this picture is the first picture of the 4 of us, the baby was facing us, because thats how she was laying and Welly wasn't supposed to go to the other side of the bed. I'm happy to have Welly here at least for the weekend, I miss him so much, I can't wait to go home and be with both of my kids...soon, soon.................Delma

Faith doing better

Well today Baby Faith is doing much better. That infection that she had is becoming less and less every day. We can feel the power of prayer every time we walk into her room. God keeps on doing what He's doing through her every day more and more. I wonder if she knows who I am every time she sees me and makes facial expressions at me. I melt every time I see her. I look at her and I lose all my manlyness and I start talking to her in a wierd voice and I don't care who is watching. The love for a child is a unique kind of love that surpasses all others, it's unconditional. There's no way to explain the love that's felt unless you've been in my shoes. Today mommy bought her some little bows and put them on her. She doesn't have enough hair on her head so she just laid it on there for the picture (she looked so beautiful). She's looking more "werita" every day more and more. She had her eyes wide open all day today when we would do the care. The care is when mommy and I go and do the nurse's job. We check her temperature, change her diaper, and the nurse suctions her breathing tube. We do that every four hours. To God be the glory that my baby is doing so much better. Thanks again for all the prayers. "Keep the Faith"...........Daddy

1lb. 1oz.

Today was a good day for our big 1 pound 1 ounce Faith. She's recovering well from the infection and was using less oxygen. Thank you Jesus!!! She was wide awake and very active all the times we visit her, I think she recognizes our voices because she's very attentive when we talk to her. We caught her sucking her thumb at one of the visits, she looked so cute, but Phil forgot the camera so we didn't take a picture, geez!
On the picture on top she's holding my ring, I lent it to her for the picture and she wanted to keep it forever, I told her it was hers, she can wear it as a bracelet for now. I love her so much, I never thought I could love anyone else like I love my Welly, I was soooooo wrong.I didn't think I could get along with a girl in the family, but Faith and I are like the bestest of friends. I'll never forget how proud I felt one of the times I walk in and her nurse asks me: are you Delma's mom? Wow, it felt good to say: yes thats my daugther..........Delma

The new blog

Well so far my little angel is hanging in there. She's got her momma's strength to fight anything that comes her way. She's on a respirator right now and they are slowly trying to wing her off of it, but we know that is going to take a while, since she's so small.  She has blood in the left part of her brain and it's starting to coagulate and is plugging up pores that absorb fluid that comes from the spine. There is a small excess of fluid in her brain that might need to be removed if continues to accumulate, but the neurosurgeon say that she is to little to put any kind of drain in her head.  The fluid hasn't grown in the last five days (so that's good). They expected there to be a lot more than the last time they checked.  We are praying for that fluid to find a way to flow through where it is supposed to, so that she doesn't need a drain.  She also has a bacterial infection that they say might be caused by one of the tubes in her bellybutton. They've started her on antibiotics yesterda and they've removed that tube today.  The antibiotics are doing a good job and it looks like she's doing a little better.  After they took out the tube from her belly they replaced it with one on her arm. 
 Today our pastors Isaias & Lucy and Modesto & Lupita came to visit.  We feel very blessed to have such great spiritual leaders that pray and encourage us.  I want to thank everyone for the gifts, the words of encouragement, and especially for the prayers.  I could honestly feel the love and compassion for us, I can't repay all the things that you all have done for us but God has a special place in heaven for people like you. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.  God bless you!! ........Daddy