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This is Part 5 in a guest series by Hellobee community member C. You can read Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 here. From the first day of his life, our baby struggled to eat. Like so many babies with a CHD, his lung functioning was compromised. The fluid building up on his lungs created the sensation of […]

This is part 4 in a series about congenital heart defect by guest blogger C. Five days after open heart surgery to repair the VSD hole in his heart, our son was finally on the road to recovery. We thought we would be at the hospital for a few more days before discharge. Then his […]

This is a guest post series by C. You can read Parts 1 and 2 here. Pre-Op Day Pre-op day was grueling for us and our baby. The day he turned 3 months old, we sat down in a room with his surgeon. We asked, practically begged, to know if there were any other treatments. […]

This is part 2 in a series about congenital heart defect by guest blogger C. You can read Part 1 here. On New Year’s Eve our son had his first echocardiogram (echo) to look at his heart. The echo was very similar to an ultrasound. After the echo we met with the pediatric cardiologist. She […]

This is a guest post series from Hellobee reader C. At 3 months-old, we handed our baby over to a surgeon for open-heart surgery. It was our best hope for him to live to see his first birthday. Our sweet baby boy was born with a hole in his heart called a Ventricular Septal Defect […]