Gold Coast baby Lilliana Sheridan has made some large steps to returning home leaving ICU on Sunday

GOLD Coast baby Lilliana Sheridan has made some large steps to returning home leaving ICU on Sunday.

Jai Sheridan and Elisha Robinson with their eight-month-old baby Lilliana in a Thai hospital.

THE Gold Coast baby who almost died of meningococcal in Thailand has been moved out of intensive care and into the normal baby ward.

It’s a huge step in the process to get Lilliana Sheridan back to Australia from Thailand without losing her limbs.

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Thai doctors operated on Lilliana’s right leg last week after it became infected due to a lack of circulation and blood poisoning.

Her dressings were taken off on Saturday and the raw flesh inspected.

Baby Lilliana Sheridan in was flown from Phuket to Bangkok.

“She is a miracle baby considering we thought she was going to die,” her father Jai Sheridan said.

He said she could be on her way home within a few weeks.

Mr Sheridan said Lilliana would have a long and painful rehabilitation when she arrived home.

The eight-month-old’s legs were full of rotten skin and flesh after she contracted meningococcal on October 25 while on a family holiday in Thailand.

Baby Lilliana Sheridan has infections in both of her legs after contracting meningococcal while in Thailand on holiday with her Gold Coast family. They want to bring her home to Australia as Thai doctors talk about possible amputation.

Her arms and legs turned black and blue as the swelling damaged her nerves and blood couldn’t get to the end of her limbs.

She needed urgent blood transfusions and was a serious risk of losing her legs.

Lilliana’s mum Elisha Robinson made a heartfelt plea for people to donate O negative blood as there was none left in the hospital for Lilliana.

“My baby is dying in Bangkok Hospital Phuket Town,” she wrote on Facebook last Friday.

“She needs O negative blood, please help me, someone please, I’m begging I can’t lose my baby.”

Within a day 1000 people donated blood and Lilliana began to recover.

She stabilised and was transported from Phuket to Bangkok.

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