Your Stories: A “Miracle Baby”
Published: June 20, 2005
Nine years ago, Scott and Lori Zimick learned that they’d never be able to have children of their own. It was one of the most devastating moments of their lives.
And they were ready to give up on having their own family until Scott’s pregnant sister offered them that chance.
“I think I stopped breathing,” recalls Lori. “I went blank,” says Scott.
That’s how Lori and Scott Zimick describe their reaction to an offer made by Scott’s pregnant sister, Autumn, in 2003.
The couple learned a few years earlier they’d never be able to conceive a child, and Autumn offered to let Scott and Lori adopt her baby and raise it as their own. The Zimicks agreed.
Just five weeks later, due to medical complications, Bobbi Jo was born three months premature.
It was a shock for Scott and Lori to suddenly be parents.
“You don’t know what to expect. I’d never seen a baby that small, never heard of a baby being born that small,” Scott says.
“When [the nurses] put her in my hands the day after she was born, she fit into my hands,” recalls Lori.
Bobbi Jo spent the next four months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unti at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, and the Zimicks carefully documented every detail, from the first time Scott held her to how small her feet were at birth.
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Baby’s Day OutToday, Bobbi Jo is a spunky, energetic two-year old, and every day Scott and Lori are taking advantage of a parenthood they thought would never exist.
“We enjoy every minute with her. We use her as an excuse to play, but we figure this is our one chance,” says Lori.
Aside from being on the small side for her age, Bobbi Jo has very few health problems in connection to her premature birth.
The Zimicks call her a “miracle baby,” and say with this little girl in their lives, they enjoy Mother’s Day and Father’s Day now more than ever.
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