Don't forget about the dad! Everyone asks how the mom is doing. 🤍And that matters. It really does. But I want to talk about the spouse. The one standing just behind her in the doctor’s...
Diagnosis Day-A trip down memory lane One minute I was pregnant—planning names and nursery colors. The next, a doctor was saying words I had never heard before: Transposition of the Great Arteries. TGA. A heart that wouldn’t work...
What I Wish I Could Tell My Past Self at Diagnosis I can still see her. 💔 Sitting there.💔 Trying to understand the words the doctor just said.💔 Nodding like she’s following… but feeling like the floor just disappeared beneath her....
The Waiting Room Thoughts No One Talks About The waiting room is quiet… but my mind isn’t. Will the scans come back “normal”? And what even is normal for a heart baby? Sometimes normal just means stable. Sometimes it means...