Giving Thanks: Hazlehurst Family Thanks God for Their Miracle Baby

At the end of September, we introduced you to the Simpson family of Hazlehurst and their baby boy, Zoe, who was born more than 6 weeks premature
 
Zoe had a condition known as Hydrops, a brain bleed, fluid on the brain and doctors didn't expect him to live. If he did, doctors thought he'd be blind.
 
Zoe left the hospital at the beginning of October with a feeding tube and a heart monitor. He had already taken his oxygen tube out on his own.
 
News 3's Randi Hempel visited the Simpson family in Hazlehurst to see how Zoe is doing and how the family is giving thanks.
 
 
“We continue to get good reports about his health and his development. We have a therapist coming to the house to check his development and she said he's doing wonderful. Everything that he should be doing for his age, he is doing and as you can see, he's very active,” Carmen Simpson laughs as her baby makes some noise.
 
Zoe Simpson went from 3 pounds 3 ounces when he was born premature in

August to eight pounds 14 ounces now.
 
“He has had a miracle happen to him,” explains Zoe’s 6-year old brother, Isaac.
 
When he was born, he had a major bleed on the brain and doctors didn't expect him to live past 24 hours. Months later, his liver is no longer enlarged, his eyes are free of blood clots and he's a healthy baby, growing an ounce a day.
 
“We just knew that it wasn't up to any of us what happened that Zoe's life was in God's hands and so we just ah really began to pray and seek God and here we are just over 3 months old and everywhere we go, everybody says he doesn't look like he was ever sick,” says Jim Simpson, Zoe’s dad.
 
The family bakes Christmas cookies at home. Zoe’s big sister, 2-year old Katelyn and brother, Isaac eats the dough.   The family prepares for the holidays, thankful for their blessings.
 
Carmen says she’s always been thankful for her family, but this year, she’s thankful for different things, things most would take for granted, middle of the night feedings.
 
"The focus changes from this is so hard, you know I'm so tired to I'm really thankful for the reasons that I'm tired,”
 
"By the standards that we see on a daily basis, there should only be 4 of us this Thanksgiving, But, because of God's grace, there's going to be five of us and I shouldn't be sitting here doing this (holding his baby) but I am and I'm thankful for that,” continues Jim.
 
“It's just good to have him home,” Isaac says with a smile.

Zoe continues to go to a liver doctor, a neurologist, an eye doctor, a urologist, and pediatrician every few weeks.
 
His jaundice is also improving.
 
For more on Zoe’s journey, click on the below stories.
 

Hazlehurst Baby Survives Extraordinary Odds
Miracle Baby, Zoe, Gets Ready To Go Home
Zoe's Website