Speaker 1: One morning, I get my kids in the car and
we're driving and I just start gushing blood.
Speaker 2: Marla felt a deep, body wide ache, unlike anything she'd
felt before.
Speaker 1: I had never miscarried before, but I knew something was
definitely wrong.
Speaker 2: They rushed to the emergency room and waited in agony
for doctors to search for a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I am so sorry, but you're going
to lose this baby.
Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files.
Speaker 3: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters
who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking
more light in our lives.
Speaker 2: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
on this journey. Welcome back to the Miracle Files. We
have another great story for you today about a pregnant
woman named Marlat and the crazy things that she went through.
Speaker 1: And men, you.
Speaker 2: Don't have to skip this episode, do you know you
get off the pregnancy, But yeah, it's an incredible story.
Speaker 3: Blake actually really loved this episode, So yeah, men, you
gotta stay for it. It's really good. But we do
want to give a trigger warning to anyone who's dealt
with fertility issues, or who has dealt with infant loss,
or has had difficulties with childbirth. We just want you
to know that this one might be a harder episode
for you before we start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had several friends who struggled with that, and
I know it can be such a challenging thing to
go through. And if you are going through that, we
want you to know we love you, we're thinking about you,
we pray for you, and yeah, so yep, all right,
let's jump into this amazing story. In December twenty twenty,
Marla and her husband Sam had just come through a
difficult season in their marriage. They both felt the same
unmistakable impression from the Holy Spirit they were meant to
have another child. The timing seemed a bit precarious with
their marriage still healing, but the message was clear, and
almost immediately Marla was pregnant. The suddenness of it left
them in awe.
Speaker 1: I got pregnant right away, and it felt so divinely guided,
and it felt like spiritual whiplash.
Speaker 2: Shortly after Marla got pregnant, her inlaws did something strange
and unexpected.
Speaker 1: I got pregnant the very end of December, and I
found out the very beginning of January of twenty twenty one,
and his parents had gone on a vacation to Arizona
over the holidays, and they came back and they walked
in the kitchen and they put a house listing on
our kitchen counter, and I was like, what is that?
And he said, oh, we just bought a house in Arizona.
And We're like, you just bought a house in Arizona.
Speaker 2: What were you thinking. Marla was surprised and saddened that
her in law was we're suddenly moving away.
Speaker 1: They're like, we actually can't move there until the end
of May. But we bought this house and we are
moving all of our stuff out and we are going
to fully furnish that house. It's just going to sit
there though until May. And I thought they were crazy,
to be honest, I was like, what, But they said
they felt strongly about it.
Speaker 2: Over the next few weeks, the gloomy Utah winters weighed
heavily on Marla. She was exhausted, sick, and struggling. Her
own parents lived in Arizona, and they suggested she come
visit them for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: They said, why don't you come down and we'll take
care of you. We'll take care of your other three kids,
and you can just get some sunshine.
Speaker 2: It sounded like a welcome change and a great idea,
But only a day later, that great idea became a nightmare.
Speaker 1: The day after we arrived, I felt this gush of blood,
and that gush was the worst feeling. I had never
miscarried before, and so I didn't understand, but I knew
something was definitely wrong. And so I went to the
bathroom and my husband came in and I'm like, I'm miscarrying.
This must be what's happening.
Speaker 2: Marla and Sam were devastated. They rushed to the emergency
room and waited in agony for doctors to search for
a heartbeat. But there it was. Marla couldn't believe it.
Her baby was still alive nine weeks. A long relief
swept over her, but it was short lived. The ultrasound
revealed large subchoreonic hemorrhages, pockets of blood wedged between the
placenta and uterine wall. The doctors warned Marla that these
hemorrhages could cause a placental abruption. The instruction was clear,
don't travel, stay on bed rest. Wait. Marla was stunned.
Don't travel, but she didn't live here. It was only
supposed to be a visit.
Speaker 1: So what was supposed to be a ten day vacation
is now a you need to stay here until this
is resolved.
Speaker 2: Marla's husband, Sam, had just started a new job that
could work remotely, and that felt like a huge blessing.
But with three busy children, Marla worried about moving in
with her parents. It was one thing to visit, but
a whole other to live there for an undetermined length
of time. As Marla waited for her next appointment, she
prayed for guidance, and suddenly her in laws made a
generous offer.
Speaker 1: And when we found out that I could no longer
travel and we were stuck there, his parents said, well, wait,
we just bought that house. We just bought that house,
and it is fully furnished and it's just sitting there.
And that blew my mind.
Speaker 2: So Marla, Sam, and their other children moved into her
in law's vacant house, determined to make the best of
an unusual situation.
Speaker 1: So I'm taking it easy for a while, and I'm
feeling a lot of peace. Like I had said, the
whole pregnancy had felt so guided, and so I was
just holding onto that, Okay, this is divine, this is
going to be okay. I felt so much peace.
Speaker 2: With the place to stay temporarily. Marla and her family
felt blessed and assured. But then a week later, at
eleven weeks pregnant, came another gush of blood.
Speaker 1: One morning, I get my kids in the car and
we're driving and I just start gushing blood again as
I'm driving, and I quickly pull over and get back
home and realize, okay, wow, this is a lot I
need to get back into the doctor. And my husband said,
do you want me to come in with you to
see the doctor? And I said, I'm sure it's fine.
I'm sure it's just another bleeding episode. And they're gonna
do an ultrasound and then send me home and tell
me to rest more. And so I drop everyone off.
I go to the doctor while I'm bleeding, and they
do an ultrasound and it is slow and it is quiet,
and I go into the room to wait, and I
wait there.
Speaker 2: For a very long time. The doctor returned to the
room and looked seriously into Marla's eyes. She then hit
Marla with devastating news, her words echoing through Marla's brain.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I am so sorry, but you're going
to lose this baby. And we don't know when you're
going to lose this baby, but you're going to lose
this baby because you've had a placental abruption and your
placenta is more than half the way off, and those
pockets of blood are expanding so fast that it will
just tear the placenta off. And we don't know if
you're going to lose it any moment, or if you're
going to lose it in the next day or so,
but we do know that you're going to lose the baby.
And I was so unprepared for that because I had
felt like it was so divine. It felt like this
spirit was supposed to be in our family, and that
peace had been so pervasive, and so I just wasn't
expecting that whatsoever. It was just crushing to me that
my body was the thing that was going to fall
apart in this situation. I had often thought of miscarriages
as being maybe something in the baby, or there was
a defect or something hadn't gone right, and so the
baby would pass and I had a very very healthy baby.
And in every ultra sound up to that point, they
would say, Wow, we're just so amazed at how lively
your baby is. She's so alive, and they would use
those words over and over, she is so lively. And
so then as I leave, I'm thinking, Wow, I have
this beautiful little baby in there who's so so lively
and it's just going to lose its life support. And
that was something that I hadn't really ever thought about
or grappled with. And so they said, you can schedule
another appointment for a week out, but you're not going
to make get and so we just need as soon
as you start losing a lot of blood, we need
to schedule you for your blood transfusions and you need
to go straight to the hospital.
Speaker 2: As Marla left the appointment, she felt numb. She felt
like her own body was betraying her. After breaking the
heart wrenching news to Sam, they ordered an expedited gender test.
If this was the end, they needed closure, They needed
to know more about the little life they already loved.
The results came quickly, a girl, a sweet baby girl
who they would never get to meet. The emotional pain
was terrible, but then came the physical pain, intense, throbbing pain.
It came out of the blue. Just days later, Marla
felt a deep body white ache, unlike anything she'd felt before.
Speaker 1: And there is one day in particular that my whole
body hurt so bad, particularly my stomach.
Speaker 2: Marla remembered her doctor's words, you're going to loose the baby.
With her placenta almost completely detached, there was no way
the baby could survive. Its life depended entirely on that
fragile connection for oxygen and nutrients, and once detached, a
placenta cannot reattach. Marla feared this was the end. She
looked to God for comfort. In the midst of her sorrow, I.
Speaker 1: Had the distinct impression, come, your uterus is under construction.
And I didn't quite know what to make of that.
Speaker 2: Her uterus was under construction. This thought made no sense
to Marla's mind, but despite the odds, her heart continued
to hope for a miracle.
Speaker 1: Now every day is just like this waiting game. When
am I going to pass this baby? When is the
next guy of blood coming? When is that fully detaching?
But at the same time, I'm processing God does miracles
and I have felt a lot of peace, and is
that piece that things are gonna work out or is
a piece that in the end things are gonna be okay?
Like eternally.
Speaker 2: One week later, Marla returned with Sam for another ultrasound.
Her baby wasn't supposed to have made it this far.
At the appointment, the ultrasound tech frowned.
Speaker 1: And I have just been dying to see what is
happening inside of me, and they do that ultrasound and
the ultrasound tech space is just like utter confusion. She
looks at it, She's going through so many things. She
stops and she's like, I don't understand what I'm seeing.
I want you to go to the bathroom. Maybe it's
because you have too much in your bladder. We need
to figure out what's going on. So go to the bathroom,
come back in. They read the ultrasound again a whole
other time, all these measurements, all these things, and I'm
saying there trying to figure out for myself what was
going on.
Speaker 2: Marla and Sam were instructed to have a seat in
the waiting room with feelings of both hope and sorrow.
They braced themselves for whatever news the doctor might bring.
After what felt like an eternity, the doctor came out
to the waiting room, a serious expression on her face,
and with quiet gentleness, she delivered some unbelievable news.
Speaker 1: They say, okay, well, so it looks like your planet
of senate is attached, and it looks like you do
have some big subquoryonic hemorrhages, and so we need to wait.
You should not travel, you should not go anywhere. And
I was looking at her and I'm like, what do
you mean, what do you mean it's attached? And she
was like, well, it looks like it's attached. And I
was like, I understand, but before it wasn't. And she
gave me no explanation. And I even saw one thing
that was very intriguing to me, and one was that
the placenta that was before posterior, which means to the back,
was now anterior to the front. And I said, wait
a second, wasn't my placenta on the other side of
my uterus? And she said, oh no, I'm sure that
that was just a ultrasound tech mistake. I'm sure that
they just labeled that incorrectly. Before she said no, I
mean placentas don't cross a uterus, so that must have
just been a mistake on our part.
Speaker 2: Marla was sure it hadn't been a mistake, but either
way she felt an overwhelming gratitude that her baby was
still alive, still growing. While the doctors couldn't explain it,
Marla could, and the only explanation was that this was
a miracle. She knew her uterus had truly been under construction.
God had told her he had been working in Marla's life,
on her marriage, on her faith, and on her womb
in ways that went beyond worldly understanding. The weeks turned
into months, Marla remained in Arizona, unextended, bed dressed, and
even here she saw God's fingerprints the address of the
home her inlaws had bought, Milagro Avenue.
Speaker 1: And if you know what malager means, Malagro is the
Spanish word for miracle. And so we lived on Miracle
Avenue and that house was bought for us to experience
a trial, but also the most magnificent miracle that we
could realize what God can really do. Doctors and other
people will say that things are done and there's no
hope and that there's nothing that can be done in
a certain situation it's too bleak. But God will come
in and he will work miracles, and he will change
what was impossible to being a reality. That's what he
did for our family.
Speaker 2: In April, on Marla's birthday, she was it finally cleared
to return home. By then, the ultrasound showed no hemorrhages
at all and a completely normal pregnancy, and on September eighth,
at thirty nine weeks, Marla delivered a healthy baby girl.
Her midwife held up the placenta and showed Marla the proof,
clear scarlines, evidence of where it had torn away and
where it had reattached. Marla and Sam named their baby
girl Eva Jane.
Speaker 1: We really wanted to have her name be full of
meaning for her because of what we knew that that
could mean for her, knowing that she had been saved,
her life had been given to her by God. And
so we went to the hospital with three different names.
And as soon as we delivered, my husband and I
looked at each other and we were like, her name
is Eva Jane. Eva means full of life and Jane
means by the grace of God. That way she can
know that is really just because of him that she
is that lively, lively girl that she is.
Speaker 2: And then one quiet day a month later, Marla found
herself wondering. She couldn't quite shake it. She had to know.
One thing she knew Eva Jane's life was a gift,
but she just needed to see something for herself.
Speaker 1: So I was so nervous, actually, once I thought that
it was a miracle, I was really nervous to go
back and actually look through all of them and think, like,
was that actually a miracle or did that not actually
really happen? And then I looked back at my earliest
ultrasound from that er visit, and the placenta was on
the other side, and they had documented it and written
it out. The placenta is posterior, and I delivered with
an anterior placenta. It had definitely switched all the way across.
Speaker 2: As her heart swelled, Marla knew now with even more
certainty than before, that she had been blessed with a miracle.
She hadn't just imagined it, it was all real. Marla's
gratitude to God was almost overwhelming. Today Eva is four
years old and just as vibrant as ever, Warla often
thinks back to those words that carried her through under construction.
Doctor said there was no chance, but God had the
final word, and that word was life.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Crazy story.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine getting stuck on vacation like that being bignant?
Speaker 2: I know it would be wild, but at the same time,
like it's amazing how everything was like in place for
their family. Yeah, to be able to move into this house,
this vacant house on this street called Malagro or Miracle Avenue,
like miracle, It's just all these little things that God did.
That's like, you know what, this is gonna be really hard,
but I've got you, like I'm.
Speaker 1: Aware of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. Can you imagine also getting that
news about your baby, like it had to been so
absolutely heartbreaking to her to know that you are just
carrying this baby that is going to pass. And I've
had a couple of miscarriages myself, nothing to that extent,
but I know how hard that is, Like you have
all those plans and dreams for this little one and
then to just have those go up and smoke is
just devastating, I know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's to lose a child at any point
would just be absolutely heartbreaking. And the sad reality is
there are people who have to go through that, and yeah,
I mean, amazingly, Marla didn't have to. She had this
beautiful miracle. But it's one of those questions that always
comes up, like.
Speaker 3: Why why does one person? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, why doesn't that happen for everyone?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But yeah, Marla had a really cool perspective. I really
like what she said about this. So let's play her
SoundBite to hear what she had to say. Okay, I have.
Speaker 1: This Instagram account and this video about her just went
viral and people are asking like, oh, that's great for you,
but like, what about everyone else? And my answer about
miracles is I think it's complex that some miracles happen
and some miracles don't, but it's also really simple. God
honors our individuality and he will parent us that way,
and he will give us what we need. And knowing
that He is so aware of us, I think is
what I love. Because it's not that you don't receive
a miracle because God isn't aware of you, or he
doesn't think you're good enough or anything like that. For
some reason, we received a miracle and I felt it
very impressed on me. You need to share this miracle
with as many people as possible, Like this is not
just your miracle. This is a miracle where you share
what I'm capable of doing, and so he does the
impossible and I'm just here to tell you about it.
Speaker 3: Man, it's so tough when people don't receive the miracles
are asking for and I mean literally sometimes begging God
for right, you know, it's so hard. And I kept
thinking about Jack from The Mystery Bote. I don't know
if you remember what he said, but he said, sometimes
we just have to hit the eye believe button and
just trust God that he has a plan well.
Speaker 2: And trust that even if you're going through a hard time,
God can be there with you. He can help you
get through whatever it is you're going through. So yeah, absolutely, yeah.
I also love what Marla said about sharing her story
to you know, honor God and to share how good
he is. She also said something that I thought was
really interesting about her placenta.
Speaker 1: I feel like the placenta is like a sermon in itself.
This placenta is a life support. It is what gives life,
and He is our life. He's the way, the truth
the life, and he is what made that life possible
by healing that and it just blows my mind. But
the fact that you could see all those scars was
just another testament. The scars are there and they tell
this story like his scars do. They tell a story.
And I'm so glad that the scars stayed to tell
that story.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that because you think about Jesus. I mean,
he didn't erase his scars when he was resurrected, like
he chose to keep them. Yeah, so that we would
never forget the love that he has for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So powerful.
Speaker 3: And we have one last downbite that we want to
share today. Eva Jane is four years old and we
asked Marlott if Eva Jane is still as lively as ever,
and this is what she said.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Yes she is. She is so so lively.
Speaker 2: She is.
Speaker 1: She's a real life Disney princess. That's what we always
just say.
Speaker 3: She is.
Speaker 1: She is so vibrant and so alive. And it's really
really sweet to see that spirit how it just never
stopped bouncing.
Speaker 2: Isn't she just so cute? She is cute as little girl.
Speaker 3: Yes, someday maybe she'll be a Disney princess.
Speaker 2: I could see well.
Speaker 3: Thank you everyone for joining us today. You are awesome. Yeah,
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