One minute my daughter was fine, the next we feared she wouldn't pull through...

Bleary-eyed, I reached over to try to settle my baby in her Moses basket.
Sienna-Rose was only three weeks old and had been distressed all night.
As morning dawned, I checked on her again and noticed a toe on her right foot was turning purple.
I felt her forehead, but she didn’t seem hot, so I wasn’t too worried at first.
But within an hour, her big toe was also dark red.
Her temperature skyrocketed to almost 40 degrees.
I put her in the car immediately and drove to the nearest clinic with my sister-in-law Lauren.
A doctor examined her, then quickly called for paramedics.
One gave her an antibiotic injection, as another took me aside.
‘Don’t be alarmed, but this is urgent,’ the paramedic said. ‘We’re going to blue-light her
to hospital.’
Sienna-Rose was rushed into the resuscitation area where doctors took blood from her.
‘Please tell me what’s wrong with my baby,’ I begged.
‘We suspect meningococcal septicaemia with septic emboli of the foot,’ the doctor explained.
‘Is she going to make it?’ I asked.
‘Her blood poison markers are over 300 and grown men often don’t survive that,’ he replied. ‘There’s a high chance she’ll lose her toes, and maybe even her foot.’
I was in shock.
My dad and my partner arrived and I broke
down sobbing.
Sienna-Rose was moved to the paediatric ward and given antibiotics orally and by a drip, plus drugs to thin her blood, and a foot patch to stimulate blood flow.
Gradually, she started improving.
Finally, after two weeks, doctors told me she was out of the woods and she was allowed to go home and join her brothers Logan-James, six, and three-year-old Cody-Leigh.
Her toes were still dark until one morning, the blood-filled bumps popped and gradually healed.
Sienna-Rose has now made a full recovery. She’s our little miracle.
From Roxanne Maiden, 28, of Kidderminster, Worcs
Septic emboli of the foot
What is it? An obstruction of the blood vessel, usually by a blood clot which has travelled from elsewhere in the body.
What are the symptoms? Small, slightly raised purple spots which appear under the skin.
What’s the treatment? Removing dead tissue from the wound, draining the abscess, or IV antibiotics.
Where can I find out more? Visit healthline.com and search ‘septic emboli’.