Heart baby

I’m a proud father of two boys and one beautiful daughter. Recently my partner had a caesarean to deliver our now 8 week year old baby girl.

Our journey with us finding out we were pregnant was exciting, when we went in to find out the sex of our baby, we were 22 weeks into the pregnancy. We were going through the scan and for some reason we couldn’t get a photo of her heart beat but the lady who was doing the ultrasound suggested we come back in two weeks time.

So we did but still no luck with the heart picture. We didn’t think much of it due to the excitement of having our first girl. We have two boys aged 10 and 4 her were both fine when they were born. We ended up having a scan at 32 weeks and that’s when we received bad news that our baby was going to be born with a heart defect all the excitement went away as we were worried if our daughter would survive this.

My partner had to have a emergency caesarean because my daughter wasn’t getting enough oxygen to the brain. My daughter was born 25 February 2020 ever since she was born we have spent most of the time in hospital recently they flew her up to starship hospital because she started to deteriorate. My daughter has a heart defect called tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia with mapcas but the doctor said it’s more complicated.

I’ve been off work for 6 weeks now due to my partner and I looking after our daughter full time. The reason why we made that choice is because she has multiple surgeries coming up and we would appreciate any donations just to help us out financially and with everyday living costs. Thank you