I sit back and reflect on the day that we received Quinn’s original diagnosis...

I remember sitting in that room staring at the ultrasound and her very broken heart wondering how had I never really heard about this? Nowhere in any of the multitude of books and birthing classes did it even utter a mention of heart defects. 

I mean I guess I probably did hear about it at some point…. or had seen or heard something about it on social media and just kept scrolling. But honestly, how could I be so incredibly ignorant? 

What do you mean that congenital heart defects are “VERY common?” It obviously wasn’t that common that I, Miss-Research-Everything-Mama, didn’t really and truly know this was a common thing, right?? … or was it that I was too focused on the other grave and unjust childhood illnesses that we hear about more frequently. 

It took a matter of .02 seconds to realize that even with all the rare and specific heart problems that can occur, congenital heart defects as a whole were more common than I even wanted to admit to.
1 in every 100 babies born has a CHD of some sort.