We found out about Jack’s rare heart defect (Holmes heart, single ventricle) during a prenatal screening ultrasound when I was 17 weeks pregnant. I can remember in vivid detail that moment over 20 years ago, the technician diligently searching for the missing...
After an uneventful pregnancy and planned c-section birth at our local Central Oregon hospital, Levi made his way into the world, seemingly healthy and perfect in every way. His first day of life was spent surrounded by his parents, two excited big brothers, and other...
This is Sophia – we often call her Sophie-Bear or Soph-Soph. She is 6 years old. She has Complete Heart Block and received a Pacemaker in March of 2021. Sophia from birth to 5 had no major health conditions, her heart block is not congenital (she wasn’t born...
I worried about a lot of potential complications and problems during my first two pregnancies, but heart defects were never really on my radar. As far as I knew, our family had no prior history of heart complications and I had very limited awareness of the...
