Thursday, July 1, 2010

Crazy Days!!

So I'll give a little more background info on Avery...we found out about her syndrome and heart defect at my 6 month check-up when they told us if she was a boy or a girl. The Dr. broke the news in a not so nice way, saying that she has a 3 chambered heart and that i would carry her full term and she would most likely die within days/weeks of birth. We were devastated (to say the least), we had tried for 3 years to get pregnant and what we thought was our perfect little baby, was shattered into pieces. We ended up going to see a specialist and an awesome pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Michael Womack. He told us that "yes she has a 3 chambered heart and NO she will not die, she will survive." She has a syndrome called Heterotaxy...basically her vital organs (stomach and liver for sure) are opposite of where they should normally be. She has a malrotation in her intestines that she will hopefully have surgery on soon...we have a consult with the pediatric surgeon on July 6th, 2010.

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