This is the journey through our daughter’s Congenital Heart Defect and eventual heart transplant. When you “decide” to go down the transplant route as it is called there are certain things you find out after you sign on the dotted line.
I went in to Children’s Hospital and did the echo. He identified an arrhythmia that he called atrial bigeminy with blocked premature atrial contractions. It means that her ventricular rate was 75 beats per minute and her atrial rait was around 145 beats per minute. So, the top part of her heart was beating normally […]
I went in for my ob appointment and when my nurse midwife checked her heart by dopplar, her heart rate was 70. A normal heartrate for a fetus is 140-160. She immediately called Children’s Hospital and spoke with Dr. Lewin. He made an appointment for another echo for the following day.