Davi was two days old the first time her mom, Staci Reznik, held her in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Health℠.

She cradled Davi — wrapped in a pink blanket with a beanie covering wisps of dark brown hair — amid beeping devices that monitored her baby girl, who was born with a complex congenital heart defect in September 2015.

The hums of various machines were a familiar song to Staci and her husband, Scott Reznik, M.D.

The couple built their careers in hospitals — Staci on the facilities side and Dr. Reznik as a cardiothoracic surgeon at UT Southwestern.

For them, the hospital was a place where they worked to make life better. It wasn’t a scary place.

But sitting in that room, holding her 2-day-old baby girl under fluorescent lights, Staci was worried for the first time.

“We always came to the hospital to help others, and now we were there as patients. It is a very different experience,” she said.

Davi stood centerstage against a greenscreen in a studio space at Children’s Health, swaying back and forth in a floor-length blue satin dress that revealed a red scar down the center of her chest.

“I just want to thank the doctors and nurses for taking care of me and getting well,” Davi said to the camera in Seacrest Studios — an interactive space highlighting radio and television inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

Now 6 years old, Davi has had four open heart surgeries, one bowel surgery and more than 20 other procedures at Children’s Health.

She had her first surgery at three months old and spent more than 100 nights in the hospital during her first year of life.

And through it all, Davi hasn’t stopped singing and dancing.

For Davi, music was an escape outside the hospital’s walls.

As a baby, nurses coaxed big belly laughs and gummy smiles when they sang to her.

Later, she performed musical numbers broadcast to fellow patients’ rooms in Seacrest Studios. Cords from her IV pole dangled by her side, as she smiled into the camera wearing a tiara and green satin gloves.

And then there was the rap musical performance in the blue satin dress.

“What song are you going to sing for us today?” the studio manager asked Davi.

“I’m going to sing Hamilton,” said Davi as she swooshed her dress back and forth and swung to “The Schuyler Sisters” song.

“Opportunities like this give Davi something to look forward to during her time in the hospital,” Staci said. “The doctors are wonderful, but I think the world of the Child Life specialists, the nurses and pet therapy dogs. They all play a vital role in Davi’s recovery and her mental health.