‘Miracle children’ earn applause at Erlanger

By Andrew Pantazi November 30, 2011 2 min read

Patients and families at the Little Rock Children's Hospital were treated to a visit from some of the animals at the Little Rock Zoo on Thursday afternoon. Owls, a red-tailed hawk, an opossum and an African black-footed penguin were on display at the hospital's playground.

LR Children's Hospital hosts zoo animals

Onstage, the president of Erlanger hospital talked about 50 percent survival rates and miracles.

Offstage, Betsy Taylor, president of the charitable Erlanger Health System Foundations, wiped her eyes.

Onstage, Grace and Elise Taylor, Betsy’s twin daughters, were given ribbons with their names on them and designations as miracle children.

Six and a half years ago, a doctor told a pregnant Taylor that her twins shared both a placenta and an amniotic sac. The probability of their survival was 50 percent. Taylor cried but found comfort in an employee’s words.

“If God can put them in there like that, he can get them out of there like that,” said Taylor, who heads up Erlanger’s Miracle Children program, which chooses 12 children to represent the hospital throughout the year.