It was not possible for that to be true. Thankfully they called for transport to the children's hospital next door right away and the PICU attending physician told them to start a prostaglandin drip until he could get over there. After they put her on life-support, they transferred her next door. Finally, four hours after we took her to the hospital, they came out and told us what was really wrong. She had an interrupted aortic arch.
Unborn babies have a different blood delivery system to keep the lungs from being damaged.
The extra artery usually closes within a couple of days of birth. This artery was the only blood supply Elissa had to everything below her arms. All her organs and her legs. When that artery started to close, her body went into shock from a lack of oxygen. Prostaglandin keeps that artery open to give them time to fix heart problems they never had time to fix before.