First, do you know what CHD stands for? I know I didn’t 10 years ago. Yet over 40,000 infants are born each year with a Congential Heart Defect and still the awareness isn’t where it should be. When you are at your twenty week ultrasound you are usually hoping for either a boy or a girl. I know I was on “team girl” (hey, I had two boys at home already) but deep down every mother is truly hoping for healthy. At the end of the ultrasound I was 0-2. While unaware at the time, I was starting my journey as a “heart mom”. Read more
