‘Miracle’ Preemie Born at 26 Weeks the Size of a Soda Can Now Thriving: ‘We’re Grateful to God’

The mom and dad of a California baby girl born weighing the amount of a soda can say they are grateful to God that she is thriving just seven months after her birth. 

Ellyannah Lopez came into the world after just 26 weeks in the womb, weighed only 12 oz, and was the smallest baby to ever be born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. 

Now little Ellyannah has grown to 12 pounds and continues to exceed the doctor’s expectations. 

“She was born so small that no one, none of the doctors in that operating room thought that she would cry. And when she did, I could hear everybody saying, ‘Is that her?'” Cecia Juarez, her mother, told ABC News. 

Juarez and her partner, Boris Lopez, consider their daughter to be a “miracle baby.” 

The couple tried for eight years to have a baby and just when they were going to seek fertility care, Juarez became pregnant. 

“No medication required, so we knew that our baby would be nothing short of a miracle, right?” she said.

But at just 20 weeks pregnant, doctors learned Ellyannah was not receiving enough nutrients through the umbilical cord and her mother’s blood pressure was

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