00:00A Galveston Walmart rolled out the red carpet for a Palacios family
00:04that had a scary pregnancy experience the last time they were there.
00:08Fox26's Leslie Dullespoor was there for the reunion.
00:12Hi!
00:13Congratulations.
00:15Thank you.
00:15This is the miracle right here.
00:18This is the miracle.
00:19Back in March, one beach day in Galveston turned scary quick for the Mancera family
00:25after making a pit stop at Walmart.
00:27My husband was checking out, and as he was checking out,
00:31I took all the kids for a bathroom break, and I let them go to the bathroom first,
00:37and then I was going to the bathroom, and I was like,
00:38why do I feel so much pressure?
00:40And I looked down, and it was just so much blood coming out.
00:44Whenever I saw the blood, I obviously knew it was my diagnosis.
00:48I was diagnosed with placenta previa at 18 weeks.
00:52At 25, Serena Mancera was losing not only blood, but hope.
00:57She says for her young son, Juan Mancera Jr.,
00:59but it was the swift action of Walmart team members that helped save her life, Serena says.
01:05Whenever that happened, I was terrified, and I was starting to just lose hope of reality.
01:12I was bleeding out so much.
01:14I've never lost so much blood, but the team here, they really did comfort me.
01:18All of the women that were near me, they just sprung into action.
01:24They got me a chair to sit down in because I didn't know where to sit.
01:28I was panicking.
01:29I was like, what do I do?
01:30After being rushed to the hospital that day, Serena had a C-section,
01:34and Juan was safe and sound in his parents' arms,
01:37although he spent a little over a month in NICU.
01:39But this weekend was his first one home,
01:42and he and his family came back to that Walmart for a big surprise.
01:47My husband just told me we had to come for wipes,
01:49and I was confused because I was like,
01:51I thought we had some in the back of the car, and he was like, no, we don't.
01:53And I was like, okay, we'll go to Walmart.
01:56So we just want to support y'all.
01:58I know you had a very surprising experience here at the store.
02:08Look at the stroller.
02:12Thank y'all.
02:14Sunday, Walmart associates hosted a baby shower for the young family
02:18to make sure they were okay with all the essentials they needed
02:21for little Juan and his siblings.
02:24Would you like to hold them?
02:25Do you want to hold them here?
02:27For this young family, both parents say they feel grateful
02:30for the unexpected strangers that became family.
02:33Say he was born on St. Patrick's Day.
02:35He's a lucky baby.
02:36Yeah.
02:37Definitely a lucky baby.
02:38God's hand is on his baby.
02:40Yeah.
02:42It's a miracle baby.
02:43Reporting from Galveston, Leslie Dulles, Bora Fox, 26 News.
