Today we met with another cardiologist from Lurie Children's Hospital Heart Center for our second echocardiogram. As expected, it took a while, but it went well and she was able to get a better view of the heart than they were able to last month. Now that we were over the initial shock of all of this, we were able to actually ask coherent questions and understand the answers that were given to us. Here is a rundown of what we learned today: the baby is 100% fine right now

As some of you know, we found out a couple weeks ago that baby girl Schuster - due November 21st - has a congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot. This condition consists of two major defects: (1) she has a hole in the septum between the heart's two lower chambers, the ventricles, which is known as a VSD, and (2) she has a narrowing of the pulmonary valve, meaning that not enough blood reaches the lungs, this is known as pulmonary stenosis. The baby is completely un