Only a Christmas miracle could have saved this child!

Her head was so tiny, it could fit on top of her mother’s hands. The baby’s body was so underdeveloped, her skin appeared translucent.

Attached to an array of life-support tubes and monitors, Gabriela Guzman-Morales wondered if what doctors had prepared her for was true – that her prematurely delivered baby, born at 1 pound, 13 ounces, had only a slim chance of survival.

The baby was born on Christmas Day 2004, and her family hoped she would make it to see the next.

“It was like a gift, but we still didn’t know if she would make it. Her lungs were very premature,” Guzman-Morales said in Spanish.

Today those lungs are the same ones that scream at her mother when a spoonful of mushed vegetables are headed her way. Approaching her first birthday Sunday, Emily Delgado-Guzman is her family’s Christmas miracle.