Kalla & Ivy's Story: Fighting to Breathe
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.6 • 711 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: Discussion of infant medical crisis and loss.
When baby Ivy couldn't breath doctors said it was normal, but Kalla’s instincts told her something was terribly wrong. Dismissed repeatedly, she fought through fear and isolation to uncover a rare genetic disorder that explained Ivy’s muscle spasms and respiratory failure. Discover how parental persistence and selflessness saved her daughter’s life.
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| 0:00.0 | I know our intros are usually light and cherry, but this was, this was a hard episode. |
| 0:15.9 | I mean, we still laughed a lot and had a lot of fun, but I'm kind of emotionally a wreck after this one. I'm going to be |
| 0:21.6 | really honest. Yeah, and I would say this is a good place for a trigger warning for anyone who has |
| 0:28.9 | experience infant loss. This is a story of a very, very medically complex child and a parent's fight to keep this child alive, |
| 0:40.2 | despite the dismissal of her own doctors. |
| 0:44.6 | I think that what this episode really taught me, |
| 0:50.2 | and I hope all of you glean some of the same inspiration from this, |
| 0:54.1 | is that sometimes in our children's lives, and again, I don't have a child, but I guess I can be this in a friend's life or a family member's life. |
| 1:05.8 | We have to put aside all of the trauma so that they can thrive in a simpler space. And I don't know the best |
| 1:17.5 | way to say that. And you'll all understand so much more when you listen to this episode. |
| 1:23.0 | But if you want to learn about selflessness, this is a great episode to listen to it. |
| 1:27.8 | So let's get to it. |
| 1:33.0 | Hi, Calla. |
| 1:34.1 | Welcome to the medical detectives. |
| 1:35.7 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:37.3 | Hi. |
| 1:37.9 | It's nice to be here. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm very excited to hear this story. |
| 1:41.6 | Well, Callow, could you start by taking us back to when you first found |
| 1:47.4 | out that you were pregnant with your daughter? Yes. So I found out that I was pregnant in |
| 1:53.9 | 2019. It was December of 2019. So my pregnancy was pretty normal up until, you know, COVID. |
| 2:06.9 | Yeah, COVID. And so everything was going pretty normal. We got the anatomy scan right before |
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