i don't know whether the baby has more chance of having a heart murmour. this was the only indication that something might be wrong with dd, it was spotted when she was a few hours old and was still there the next day. it breaks my heart thinking about it. she was a lovely colour, looked so healthy, just a bit tired but we were told this was because of the diamorphine. we were told most heart murmours are innocent and not to worry.
we took her home and she started fading at home, we had an angelcare monitor and the alarm went off. dd was making gasping noises, stopped breast feeding, was extremely tired and started to go cold. we called the midwife who called an ambulance. we went to our nearest hospital. we almost lost her there as they didn't listen to us and left us for almost 4 hours, they didn't believe our dd was ill, they though we were over reacting. finally when the paediatrician seen her he rushed us out the room, a team of doctors came in. we were told it was touch and go and we're lucky the paediatrician looked at her when he did. why didn't they believe me when i was crying saying i think my baby is dying :(
she was transfered to alderhey, she was in multiple organ failure at this point as her body was shuting down. it's so hard to write this, i wrote about it a few weeks back but it breaks my heart. we got her christened at 9 days, just before the operation. at two weeks old she had a unique operation that stopped her needing a heart transplant. she is doing so well and i love alder hey for the miracle they performed.
although there is very little chance of this repeating i am still scared with the thought of this baby having a heart murmour. at least this time i know what to do in an emergency and i can make the doctors listen. i wish that the law could change and every baby that has a heart murmour gets a scan before going home and parents are warned about the signs to look out for in an emergency.
sorry i've gone off the subject of mc a bit, although i had an early mc which has really upset me this is also something that really upsets me and i'm terrified of something going wrong again once the baby's here.
also thought i would mention every baby is born with a duct, dd's blood was bypassing the aotra (the artery that caries the blood out of the heart to the rest of the body) through a large hole between the top two chambers and went through this duct. the duct closes soon after birth and this is when dd started to become ill. this is why she looked so healthy at birth. there are other problems with her heart but this is theproblem that caused her to go ill at 3 days old and not as soon as the cord was cut..