...When Emma Grace Clanton was born 13 months ago, you could see inside her skin. "Every vein running through her body," says Stephanie Clanton.
"Her arm was the width of a large safety pin."
Born 16 weeks early, Emma Grace weighed 1 pound, 5 ounces; her eyes were fused shut. The night of her birth, her lungs collapsed. Surviving that, she went into septic shock a week later...
But she also has two teeth and is learning to talk — she ought to be good at it by the time her father, Robert, a National Guardsman, gets back from Afghanistan.
He'll come home to a baby known as "Amazing Grace."
"How often do you get to witness miracles?" Stephanie Clanton says. "Life is a miracle. I didn't know what it took for God to make babies and to make all of us work and operate until I had Emma Grace.
"I got to watch her eyes open."
That was part of one story, but there are more. Life expectancy of hours, days turns into years