I feel that it is important for people all around to know some of these risks a child can go through yet still in the wound. This is unfortunately something my family and I had to experience, but has showed us that we have to be very careful during pregnancy. I just hope that anyone who reads this can get an overview of one of the risks of pregnancy, and benefit from it.
Before “She” was even thought of…
Angelica JoAna Amora, or also known as Angie was born on July 15th, 1994. My aunt had much happiness as this was her first baby. She took very good care of her and loved her very much. Unfortunately, Angelica's mom and dad had to split up and go their separate ways. Years went by and my aunt found herself "the man of her dreams." He became a second father for Angie. He took great care of her and treated her as his own. Of course, after some years, my uncle wanted a child of his own. They planned on having at least one more baby. That is where Jose Luis Medina Jr. comes in. "Baby Jr." as we all call him, was born: June 20th, 2005. The whole family was jumping from joy because he was the first baby born in years. He was another happy and healthy baby. Yet, my aunt and uncle felt that there was a gap. They felt the need to have another baby. Yet, this time, they weren't so lucky.
The BRUTAL and possible FATAL heart defect known as: Congenital Heart Defect: Hypoplastic Right Ventricle…
In the middle of my aunt’s pregnancy, doctors found that there were problems with the baby’s heart. They had told my aunt that if the baby was born by some miracle, the little girl would need surgery right after birth with no guarantees of life and plenty of more surgeries after that for the rest of her life. Little Anita had a heart defect that is called Congenital Heart Defect: Hypoplastic Right Ventricle. This means that the baby’s right ventricle was small and weak because the tricuspid valve that guided the blood from the right atrium did not open in the early embryonic weeks of the baby’s life, letting no blood through the right ventricle and preventing it from growing. If you think of heart as a house with four rooms, four doors, four big hallways, and four small hallways, you can imagine the defect better.
In this picture, the tricuspid valve is absent which can also be a case.
All in all, the absence or scarcity of the tricuspid valve makes the other valves work harder but at times they are unable to handle such work so they give up and that it when the heart of the baby gives out. In my aunt’s case, this is exactly what happened. She thought she was going into labor so she was rushed to the hospital. Once there, she thought she needed to use the bathroom and at the time of doing so, she pushed out her deceased baby. It was a small baby but it was fully developed. She has her arms, legs, fingers, and toes. Baby Anita was an unlucky baby but in the long run it probably was the best because she didn’t have a guaranteed life even with all the surgeries she would have had to go through.
This is a message out to any expecting mothers: Get your occasional doctor check-ups and make sure that the baby’s heart is ok because the heart is one of the most important organs in our body, and if it gives out, we give out, forever. Watch out for your baby, help prevent this.
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