Parents gazing over their newborn baby in a hospital bassinet seems like a perfectly normal, typical scenario. Parents wide-eyed in fear looking over their newborn baby covered in wires and tubes in the cardiac intensive care unit…not so normal or typical. Yet this was our reality and is the reality…
“Well she’s actually safer inside.” They would freeze in discomfort clearly unsure what to say next. “She needs open heart surgery around 4-6 months old.” I would explain to another person. Next, I would erupt in a nervous giggle not wanting to make them uncomfortable, also unsure what to say…
Your friend, sibling, or neighbor is starting to prep for their baby’s open heart surgery. You want to help but don’t know how. You don’t want to bother them when they’re already dealing with so much. While I haven’t stood in these shoes exactly. I have been on the other…
This Heart Month, join our efforts to raise Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness and shop CHD small businesses. Once you become a heart mom or heart dad, heart aunt, or heart grandma, it feels natural to want to tell everyone about your family’s warrior and spread CHD Awareness. An easy…