This came out on Sunday so is dated, no updates yet...
Her parents say Emmie-Rose tries to follow the sound of their voices with her blue eyes. They say that the two-month-old baby's vital signs improve when she's held and that she is particularly comforted when held by her mother.
Chris and Stephanie Yannella of Ypsilanti Township cherish every day they're able to pick up their daughter, born months premature with a host of complications.
Each day for the last two weeks is a day their doctors predicted would never come.
Emmie-Rose was given two days to live on Sept. 3 and has beaten the odds so far, but she's still in intensive care at the University of Michigan Medical Center with a desperate condition. She weighs 2.1 pounds.
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The Yannellas, Chris, 38, and Stephanie, 31, were not available to comment for a story in Saturday's News on their Friday court filing. They spoke in an interview Saturday at their attorney's office in Ann Arbor.
"How can you just take food away from a child?'' said Stephanie Yannella. "That doesn't make sense ... We want the same treatment she's had since birth.''
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"It's a very tragic case,'' said attorney Stephen Goethel of Ann Arbor, who represents the Yannellas. "She is a kid who just refuses to die. The parents are told she is going to die, there is no hope, and she hasn't died.''
Baby girl's parents fight U-M decision to end treatments
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