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Heart Angel: Brendan Moman

My husband and I along with our 4-year- old son Dawson were very excited to be adding another baby boy to our family! Dawson was excited to become a big brother and we were looking forward to completing our family. During my pregnancy, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and had to be...
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Heart Warrior: Marie's Story

We found out we were pregnant while on vacation, visiting my husband’s family. We were so happy that we were having our second baby. A few months later we went for our 19 week ultrasound and we got the news that would change our lives forever. We learned our baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome...
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Heart Angel: Madden's Story

Madden's mom Carly kept a blog to remember Madden's journey and share it with family and friends. She tells his story with heartbreaking honesty, clarity and tender love. Click on the links to read her full post about that day. A mother's love This pregnancy started out much like my two before –...
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Heart Warrior: Noah’s story

Unexpected news By Tricia Jorritsma Early in my third trimester of my pregnancy, I was given unexpected and shocking news… our baby had a defective heart. And on top of that, the type and extent of the issue couldn’t be diagnosed until he was born. A star is born After weeks of pre-natal testing...
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Heart Warrior: Braeden's Story

Here is the story of my CHD warrior Braeden. At 19 weeks pregnant we found out that our son would be born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (basically only half of his hearts works-the left side never developed). We were terrified and heart broken about the struggles our sweet boy would face. We...
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Heart Warrior: Asher's Story

While I was pregnant with Asher I had all standard testing done, including 4 ultrasounds, and they all told me that Asher was a “normal and healthy” baby boy. We had no worries and were just so excited to see him! On September 6, 2014 at 10:41 pm Asher made his entrance into the world! He came out...
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Heart Warrior: Maverick's Story

Maverick Vanderzwaag Born June 7th, 2013 Everything was perfect except my heart. I underwent open heart surgery on June 14th, 2013. The 9 complications with my heart were: double outlet right ventricle, narrowing of the aorta, coarctation of the Aorta, ASD, VSD, left, and right coronary...
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