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The Good & The Beautiful

REFLECTION It was 10 weeks ago that we received the diagnosis about our baby during a routine prenatal ultrasound at 20 weeks. And let me tell you, what and interesting 10 weeks it's been. Interesting....and overwhelming, heavy, challenging, terrifying, prayerful, full of gratitude, hope, faith, and love. It's been some of the most life-changing 10 weeks of my existence. I love this picture of the baby. It shows his sweet little profile, but you can also see the obvious asymmetry of his heart, and that he left side is so tiny. I look at this picture and already know that he's a fighter. He inspires me to be my best FOR HIM so we can work through this and conquer his CHD together. I remember the first meeting we had with the cardiologist when he was going over the results of the fetal echocardiogram. The final diagnosis:  Hypoplastic Left heart Syndrome  (HLHS), one of the most severe congenital heart defects a person can have. It is fatal without