This blog, is about how we as parents were tricked into facing the horror of dealing with something critical that happened individually to each of our children, which wasn't any treat.
OUR PRINCESS WHO HAD A MONSTER IN HER HEART
And, since Halloween is around the corner, I feel this is the best time to share how this
Trick wasn't a treat
How does a parent feel, when they find out, that their new born baby has a birth defect in the heart while visiting the paediatrician for a routine check up? Knowing there is no cure / the only way to help out the baby would be an open heart surgery.
Well, our new born baby, 6.5 weeks old was detected with Atrial Septal Defect, (also known as ASD) at a routine visit.
Now, any parent who gets to learn their kid has an ASD, there are various thoughts that directly lead to the Autism Spectrum Disorder, until and unless we realise there is another one known as Atrial Septal defect.
I repeat: There are two different names of ASD
One is Autism Spectrum Disorder
Second is Atrial Septal Defect
So, when the doctor told us she has an ASD of course, we got worried. Whether it is the first name or second either way it can cause a life threatening issue or difficulties for our first born.
Our princess was detected with Atrial Septal Defect and just like any other parent we were baffled and struggling to find all the answers to the cause of it or to get it fixed. But how does a parent fix the holes in their baby's heart, not 1 but 7?
Those numerous hospital visits and 2 d echos had become a regular part of our live's and we wondered if it will ever get better or ever end. Seeing our newborn, plugged onto the machines, the wires and the constant bleeping noise of monitoring the heartbeat and the murmur sound was horrific and it was the fearful monster in our heart and mind to what if's and what not's.
All we knew, what we could do for our baby, was to heal her little beating heart herself, as she grows. It was to understand about this defect as much as possible and to pray for a miracle.
And then came a day when the doctor said "I Don't hear the murmur anymore, let's get one last 2 D echo done."
We were so scared to absorb the fact of being joyful, on what If it's wrong?
When the reports came in and we found out that those monstrous holes in her heart have closed one by one and healed as she has grown into this bubbly and chirpy little 20 month old toddler, we just could't stop our tears out of relief and joy.
This incident still reminds us, of how grateful we are to have our little babies up and running, hail and hearty.
It was our Halloween Horror phase and we hope no other parent has to go through such traumatic experience/s.
If you are one of them
remember, it is always just a phase and you can get through it
Staying composed and calm and smiling it away with each day will help you.
Sending lots of love and luck.
Special mentions to "Sneha Shishir" for helping with the catchy tagline.
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