Our journey to where we are today.....

            Emillia was born on Thursday February 26th 2009 at 1:04am.  She was 11 days over due and was delivered by emergency c-section, she weighed 7lbs 14oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. She was the picture of health but at 5 days old when we gave her her fomula bottle everything changed...... She would spit up ALL of her feedings, was very stuffy and congested, and wouldn't sleep. We had her in and out of the doctors office more than 5 times in less than 2 weeks each time being sent home after being told she had a simple "cold." During our last visit we asked M's doctor if she could possibly be allergic to her "dairy" formula and we were told she was too little to have allergies. The doctor agreed to do testing because she thought M had severe acid reflux ( this would explain her spitting up every feeding her doctor told us) However on our way home that day i stopped and picked up 2 cans of soy formula and switched her to that immediatly. The very next day she cleared up.......... She would still spit up during every feeding but was sleeping better and no longer stuffy. We had x-rays done still any way and acid reflux was ruled out.
              We coninued M on her soy formula still until her 4 month check up, that was when her doctor told us to put her back on regular formula "it was better" for her is what was explained to us. The next day her Dad decided to re-try regular formula seeing how "doctor knows best".... He gave her 2oz of forumla and waited 45 minutes, she was fine so he gave her the rest of 4 oz for a total of 6oz. Within 30 minutes she was projectile vomiting and soon became very lethargic, he put her in his truck and drove her to his parents-not far from our house- not knowing what was going on with her. She continued to projectile vomit and started to turn an ash grey when the ambulance arrived. During this time i was at work, it was Saturday July 28th of 2009 (i will NEVER forget the day) i received a phone call on the work phone which i never took calls on. When i answered it was M's dad informing me M was being taken to the hospital by ambulance and he wasnt sure what was wrong with her....That was enough for me, a million different things were racing through my head. I informed my co-workers through my tears that there was something wrong with M and that I needed to leave. I dropped everything I had in my hands and ran to my car.
          M's dad called me again and said the paramedics weren't sure which hospital they were taking her to at the time..... Once I found out which hospital they were taking her to I myself took off, the entire drive to the hospital i was again thinking of a million different things that could be wrong with her. I beat the ambulance to the hospital by more than 10 minutes. THAT was the longest 10 minutes of my life. I stood outside by the ambulance garage waiting for them to arrive. I could hear the sirens coming from miles away. By the time the ambulance pulled up i was pretty much hysterical. I rememeber them opening the doors to the ambulance and seeing my infant daughter strapped to the stretcher, she was a blueish-grey color and had a glazed look in her eyes-it was like she didnt recognize who I was. I can't describe the feeling I had when i first saw her, it was heartbreaking to say the least. She was taken in and blood test were started immediatly as well as an IV. Her blood work came back ok even though 2/3'rds of her #'s were off, this they could not explain. It was also mentioned that they believed she has having seizures in the ambulance and that if they had been much further from the hospital they would have intibated her....
          They admitted us that night and kept us until the following morning telling us she must have had a touch of the flu. She slept most of the day Sunday but when Monday rolled around she started screaming bloody murder, you could tell she was in horrible pain. I loaded her up in the car and started into town to pick up her grandmother. We were planning on taking her to Children's Hospital in the cities but couldnt make it further than 30 miles and ended up taking her to a hospital there because her screams had only gotten worse. Once in the hospital they again ran blood test, started an IV and did an x-ray. AGAIN her test came back ok and the er doctor wanted to keep her overnight for evaluation-not planning on running any more test. Once I heard this I informed the doctor that if they weren't going to run any more test that I would like to have her transferred to Children's. That was a flat no. I then informed the doctors' that i wanted release papers immediatly and that i was going to take her myself.  M's grandmother and I took off with her and ended up at Children's around 1am Tuesday morning. We saw an amazing doctor that night but of course by the time we got there she was so tired and wanted nothing more than to sleep, she had finally quit crying and was out like a light. Children's still ran blood work and admitted us overnight for observation. The following morning we were reffered to the allergy specialist in minneapolis where they did scratch test against dairy, egg whites, and egg yolks- all were negative............