Two St. George parents are telling their story following their 8-month-old daughter's life-changing surgery.

Eliana Tibbs, Elie for short, was born with biliary atresia, a rare liver disorder that only affects a small number of children at birth. Common symptoms include jaundice, which makes the skin and eyes a pale yellow, and pale stools that start around the four to eight weeks after birth. Often, a liver transplant is required.

That’s exactly what happened to the Tibbs family. The circumstances surrounding the procedure itself were a first for the surgeons at Intermountain Health, and possibly the state of Utah as a whole.

Jasmyn Tibbs, Elie’s mother, said she was caught off guard by the circumstances, with staff from Primary Children’s Hospital calling her and asking her and her hu

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