Vernal Express | 1980-10-02 | Page 30 | Miracle Baby Celebrates First Year Birthday

MIRACLE BABY CELEBRATES FIRST YEAR BIRTHDAY Tanna Lynn Ray, baby daughter of Doyal and Lynnette Nickell Ray, celebrated her first birthday, birth-day, Sept. 25. She was born approximately approx-imately fourteeen weeks premature and weighed only 2 lbs. 1 oz. Soon after birth in the University Univer-sity of Utah's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Tanna's weight dropped to 1 lb. 11 oz. It wasn't until after undergoing heart surgery at 1 lb. 15 oz. that she began to progress. At six weeks, she was tranfer-red tranfer-red to Cottonwood Hospital. At Cottonwood, she struggled for over two months to reach all the requirements enabling her to come home, Jan. 4, 1980, just four days after her original scheduled birthdate, Dec. 31, said her mother, Lynette i - , 'i L 'ill:' A Tanna Lynn Ray Nickell Ray. "We indeed feel she is a miracle baby," Mrs. Ray said.