Mom Starts Bawling to See Huge Crowd Holding Banners to Welcome Her Newborn Home

(Left) Emily Boedeker holds her preemie daughter, Eliana "Ellie" Faith, before (right) a surprise homecoming party moved the family to tears. L: Instagram | emilyboedeker, R: Facebook | Emily Boedeker

A couple was finally able to bring their baby girl home after spending nearly 200 days in the hospital. To celebrate the joyous occasion, they planned to invite four people over to their home. Little did they know that their family had planned a huge crowd to come over, leaving the wife in tears.

Emily Boedeker, of Central, Arkansas, was already a mom of two boys when she was pregnant with her third child—a girl. She thought everything was going smoothly for her and that she and her husband could bring their daughter, named Eliana Faith (“Ellie"), home by Christmas 2017.