Sabrea vickers

Mommy’s girl

hi everyone my name is sabrea and this is me and my daughters story.. it all started on sept 4th 2019 at 3:30 am my beautiful little girl was born. She was the most precious little thing and I was so happy that she was finally here. The day after she was born she began to breathe heavily and her voice was cracks so I knew that something was wrong. We told the nurses at the hospital and they said they would do an X-ray and do a deep suction that maybe mucus was just built up. They brought her back to the room and said that everything looked okay and that she just had floppy airways. I knew it was more than that but the just wouldn’t listen. The next day we got sent home and I was so excited. The first 6 weeks was hectic and I was depressed and scared because I knew something was wrong she had a fever couldn’t keep her food down so we went to the hospital. We were at this hospital for 2 weeks and they had put a breathing tube in and paralyzed her with medicine because they were trying to figure out what was wrong and she was in so much pain.. she came back positive with rhinovirus but that wasn’t the only thing and I was so scared to hear this news. They told me that she had a rare birth defect called a vascular ring that wrapped around her trachea and esphougus that made it hard for her to breathe and that there was nothing more they could do for us so they had to transfer us to Riley children’s hospital so they could help us more. When we get there they tell us that they wanna try to wait to do surgery because of how young she was and we were already there for a month.. She wasn’t getting any better so they decided to go ahead and do the surgery and after she was doing good but she had to recover and then they wanted to try to feed her by mouth she still couldn’t keep anything down so they decided to put in a feeding tube. After two months we finally get to go home and she is doing so great she is 5 months now and is able to eat of a bottle again and she can eat baby food after a long recovering she is such a happy baby and I love her so much ❤️