My name is Jesslyn Lirette I am only twenty years old. I had my baby at nine-teen. His name is special to me I thought of it while I was in the doctor office not of aware of what was ahead of me for that day. His name is Jori Kyler Lirette me and him have the same initials. He was just named after 4 people in my family me, my Aunt Lori, my Grandpa, my cousin Tyler.
The funny thing is that his middle name and mine is almost alike Kylene < (mine) Kyler < (his) strange this just popped up in my head as my named was called to go to the back. That’s it I thought God only knows what this is going to be like, my mom was with me so she was there for me and him every step of the way. We did an ultrasound to find out why he was not kicking anymore, we found out the hard way what was going on we took it hard for a while they told us we had two choices we could let them save him and see what happen from there, or let him stay in me and let us both die, my mom helped me out with this choice I was not sure of what to do at all I didn’t want to die and I didn’t want him to either, so it was very hard with in hour they had me set for delivery, I said lets do this and see what happens from there at 6:13 he was born and weighted in 1 lb4.oz and 10 in. long in length, I could not see him until the next day, his conditions were so critical that my mom was the first one to see him, she told him that he was so tiny and pink when she was in the hall and heard the Brahms lullaby playing she knew he was alive, everyone was there a hour
before he was born except one person, his dad but we are not going to talk about him. When I finally got to see him I cried and told the doctor that was not my baby but I was in denial at the time, but at the hour went on I knew he was mine and I was blessed by God, and the Angels
The Doctors and I had a sit down talk about Jori and what had happen to him, he had a fetal stroke he had a brain bleed a. 3 on his left and a .4 on the other side now he currently has one in the back of head but we just look at as a hurdle for us to over come, Jori did an MRI and now I’m being told he has ZS which being a young mom I’m not sure of what that really is that why I joined this support group to see if this could help some what I think I looked all over the net and I never head of many cases where infants would pass and go to heaven but now I never heard of a Doctor say they never heard of it was a big shock to me to see that I was smarter than him.

Jori spent Christmas with his family and New Years Eve. On Christmas day it was like I got everything I could ask for him my family to be together safe and all five of us to be home and my parents to not fight over money problem is was like a miracle, a white Christmas and Jori to be home for a holiday that means a lot to my family. In Thibodaux we had got the most snow someone told me, which is good, I got to give him
the first kiss of the New Year and the first I love you at 4:30 am.

IT was like he was gone again I saved him this time, my mom did not know what to think but she was very proud of me to get him back so quickly. Once we got our safe point I told every doctor what I saw happen and what I was doing before hand. Which was sleeping and so was he. The way it happen was like at set my alarm clock to go off for 3:30 to check on him, which I did I went back to sleep and at 4 I heard someone crying so I got up to check on him and he was sleeping but at 4:30 I heard it again and that time I was starting to worry, so I did what any Tracheotomy mom would do and suction him I got back a plug and I put back on his machine went to reach for the alarm I told myself hold on , by the time I turned around he was already colorless I was not scared because he did this before so I knew what I had to do but I knew some thing was wrong much more than distress he was having a seizer a very bad one I never saw him do this before he was shaking and I was trying to help it felt like the more I helped the more he did it so I just kept trying to save him. I knew this was going to happen for some funny reason someone was there to help me do this on my own I felt
them there every step of the way. Telling me that it was ok I felt like a nurse saving him and a mom who could do any thing for my son he was very proud of me I knew because at the hospital he was laughing and smiling and that’s the Jori I love to see not the cold blue one. For some funny reason I was happy but yet sad that he had to go back to the hospital. Not just for his sake but for mine there I know he is safe. Jori will be 6 months old in the brain, but birth wise 9 months he’s slow in the brain because of his bleed.

Well this is our story of our Gift from God.
Thank you

Jori’s Mom, Grandma, Family, and friends
Jesslyn Lirette & Delene Himel

Jori will be 1 year old April 8, 2005!