Baby Kaylee Vitelli has arrived back at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children after contracting a serious feeding-tube infection and running a high fever, the family's spokesman says.

On Monday, the three-month-old girl was taken from her home in Bradford, Ont., to Newmarket's Southlake Regional Health Centre.

On Tuesday, however, spokesman J. P. Pampena said he received a call from Kaylee's father, Jason Wallace, who said that against medical advice, they were going to transport Kaylee to Sick Kids hospital that night.

A spokeswoman for the hospital said Kaylee was brought to the hospital Tuesday night by her father. The spokeswoman said the baby would be assessed by doctors at the hospital.

She was supposed to be transferred by ambulance to the prestigious Toronto hospital on Monday, Pampena said. But he said that transfer never happened, because they had been told there were no available beds at Sick Kids. He said that officials at Sick Kids have denied this.

The girls' parents, Crystal Vitelli and Wallace, first made headlines when they went public with their wish to have their dying daughter's heart transplanted into another ill infant.

The transplant was cancelled last month after Kaylee defied the odds by continuing to breathe on her own after being removed from a respirator.

Since then, the parents have publicly clashed with hospital staff and requested this month that Kaylee be transferred to a hospital closer to their home.