Approximately one of every 100 babies is born with a congenital heart defect. ONE IN 100.
In the United States, that translates to one baby every 15 minutes. How is it possible that I knew nothing about the defect most likely...
Congenital heart defects are the leading cause of infant death in the United States.
Each year approximately 40,000 babies are born in the United States with a congenital heart defect. Approximately 10 percent of those...
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Two months ago today we lost our sweet daughter Sadie. Sadie had a congenital heart defect and was with us only 23 days. Her death was...
Sadie!
Hello all! A lot has happened since our last post...Ms. Sadie Elizabeth Schuster entered this world on Nov 14 at 5:45 am. She weighed in...
The Game Plan
We had our third echo with another cardiologist from Lurie Children's Hospital Heart Center on September 29th. Everything looks much the...
Second Meeting with Pediatric Cardiologist
Today we met with another cardiologist from Lurie Children's Hospital Heart Center for our second echocardiogram. As expected, it took a...
Baby Schu2: Introduction to Tetralogy of Fallot
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...
