Then came a new nightmare - that she’d suffered severe brain damage.

But Mia Grace Ordway celebrated her 1st birthday over the weekend and her proud papa says she’s doing “phenomenally well,” thanks to a new cooling therapy.

“She’s doing great. She’s off the charts,” Ordway said yesterday.

Ordway said his daughter goes in for a neurology test tomorrow, but so far she’s passed every test with “flying colors.”

Just a year ago, Ordway’s wife, Sarah, suffered complications during delivery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, depriving Mia of oxygen. The newborn was rushed to Children’s Hospital, where doctors used a therapeutic hypothermia treatment that lowers the body temperature in an effort to prevent brain damage. At the time, it was the Hub’s only cooling unit.

No more.

The Ordways have launched The Miracle Mia Foundation and donated a Cincinnati Sub-Zero cooling unit to the Brigham’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The couple plans to donate units to other area hospitals.

Ordway asked the doctor what would have been done had the city’s lone cooling unit been occupied.

“He shrugged his shoulders,” Ordway said. “We were lucky. This cooling unit really made a difference.”