Infant Heart Surgery

When your children have to have any kind of surgery, it is always nerve-racking. But when your newborn needs an infant heart surgery, it is even worse. Imagine having surgery on your open heart within the first couple of weeks or months.

I wrote a lot about the infant heart surgery in my book, “Matters of the Heart.” How it is being planned and scheduled and gone through. Many parents wait in the hospital waiting room praying for a successful infant heart surgery on their baby. 

Imagine having to hand your child over to a surgeon who is minutes later performing an infant heart surgery. Many parents don‘t know how to deal with that. Most of these surgeries go on for many hours and the parents are updated every hour by a nurse. It is such a relief to be notified that your child is out of the surgery room, knowing that all will be OK. 

Infant heart surgery is always a risk. But luckily, most babies survive it. There are only two children in my book who had infant heart surgery and had a longer period of recovery. 

There aren‘t many doctors who perform infant heart surgery, so careful research on hospitals and surgeons is necessary. One even has to fly almost around the whole world to meet with a surgeon who will perform this kind of infant heart surgery. 

Read tales of successful infant heart surgery in Matters of the Heart.