Toddler Makes Miraculous Recovery After Drowning In Poway Pool

An Arizona family was visiting relatives in Poway when their 2-year-old daughter Mia went missing. According to CBS8, the family was visiting Nick's parents in March when Alia ran to the store and he stayed behind with their four children. After a momentary distraction to answer a ring at the front door, Mia had gone missing.

“It’s every day that I wake up and see her and I am with her and I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t be here,” Alia told CBS8's Heather Myers. "I got a little bit more frantic because I was running out of places to look and that’s when I looked out the window and saw her body floating down, not moving."

Nick pulled Mia out of the pull and found her with no pulse and no sign of life. He remembers how to do CPR from a workshop he took back in high school Meanwhile, the Poway Fire Department was on the way. Captain Jonathan Marshall told CBS8 all lifesaving procedures were immediately started before Mia was transported to Rady Childen's Hospital.

After 9 days in the hospital, Mia was released. “Sometimes in the pediatric ICU it can be very very sad and so those moments when you have a child come back to the ICU, walking, talking, and being their normal selves and they give you a hug, it makes everything worth it,” Dr. Helen Harvey told CBS8.

The Prestons also took Mia to visit the firefighters who first arrived on the scene. She also has a special new nickname: "Miracle Mia."