Cherubs are proclaimed the international symbol of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness

Long before there were "awareness ribbons" and "awareness bracelets", long before it was fashionable to wear a color for a cause - there was CHERUBS.  In 1995, with the creation of the world's first CDH non-profit, cherubs were proclaimed the international symbol of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness.   Most CDH families refer to their CDH patients as "cherubs".

Cherubs are baby angels, symbols of hope, faith, miracles for newborn cherubs and survivors.  They are a symbols of those babies lost to CDH as well.  This symbol was carefully chosen to represent all families affected by this devastating birth defect and CHERUBS was named for 2 babies in particular;  Preston Montague and Andrea Jones, both lost to CDH and both hospital roommates of our founder's cherub, Shane Torrence.   There could not be a more accurate or special symbol for babies affected by Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia than cherubs.

Since 1995, the word "cherub" has raised such CDH Awareness on the internet!   Do a search for "cherub" or "cherubs" on any major search engine and you will find CHERUBS in the top 10 - raising CDH awareness along the way!  In fact, several CDH families found our organization accidentally by searching for baby angels on-line.   Even Wikipedia has included our charity on their page about cherubs. 

Look at all the wonderful CDH awareness we are raising on-line every time someone does a search for "cherub" or "cherubs".   These ranks are out of the millions of web sites that feature angels and cherubs.

Google - Ranked #2, behind Wikipedia's page where we are also included
Yahoo - Ranked #2, #5, #8 and #9
Bing - Ranked #3
Ask.com - Ranked #1, but that has nothing to do with sharing Wendy Petty as a spokesperson for Ask.com and CHERUBS!  :)
Altavista - Ranked #2, #5, #7 and #8
Dogpile - Ranked #6
Goodsearch -  Ranked #2, #5, #8 and #9 but they pull from Yahoo.com

 

In celebration of 15 years of serving the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia community and in celebrating our unique symbol of hope, miracles, faith, kindness and compassion, we will be soon adding more "cherubs" into our sites, projects, and the CDH Awareness Shop!

Miracles

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness." ~ Mother Teresa

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” ~ Mother Teresa

“The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.” - Storm Jameson

“A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.” - George Bernard Shaw

“For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.” - Nancy Gibbs

“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.” - William McNeile Dixon

“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.” - Marie Lloyd

“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” - John Rohn

Videos of Cherubs - Logan Wagner

Miracles Do Exist

This video is from our local NC news channel. It's quite inspirational to everyone, but especially to families who are dealing with medically fragile children such as our children born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/4187280/

This is a wonderful example of why our organization is named CHERUBS. For the baby angels that these children are. Miracles can happen with angels and cherubs. So many of our families have witnessed miracles. Miracles do exist.