It is every parent’s nightmare to have a water incident with a child. In this video, a dad’s heroic pool rescue of his 2-year-old daughter is caught on camera.

While the families are casually enjoying a holiday celebration, the kids are playing in the pool and the adults are visiting by the poolside. A man is shown asking “Are you having fun,” a precious little girl is in the pool with the other bigger kids in her vest and floaties. The little girl’s name is Mila and she is only the age of 2. She is laughing and practicing swimming. Everything seems like a fun and normal day. 

Suddenly, we see a house camera showing the pool. Later on in the day, Mila was not in her floaties and vest anymore and she got into the pool. The older sister realizes that Mila is in the pool face down and screams as she tries to get to her. The father quickly rushes and jumps into the pool as we see the mother run out of the house. The dad describes that when he got her in the pool, he turned her over to learn that she was blue-gray. He thought that his baby girl had died. The dad is a nurse, and there was, thankfully, another trauma nurse there. The dad began mouth-to-mouth, and then the nurse started chest compressions. 

The mom is seen kneeling next to her daughter praying, she describes the horror and how she turned to God. The dad says when she started crying, he knew that she was going to be ok. She ended up in the hospital overnight for observation. The girl was miraculously ok. She is seen smiling in her hospital bed with her toys and baby doll. They are in Gaston, North Carolina. Mila has made a full recovery and they want everyone to be aware of what happens at the pool. Life is precious, and God sees us even in our scariest moments.

“From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth—” Psalm 33:13-14