MY FIRST NIECE IS HERE!!!!!!!! Ok, so she's really my second cousin, but Kelly is like my sister, so I call her my niece (as she does my kids) :) Kelly was induced while we were all voting on Tuesday and had a PERFECT and easy delivery! As you can see in the pics, she is flawless and beautiful! Her skin and rosebud lips are gorgeous! She weighed 6 lbs 14 oz (not sure on length) and was born just before 2 pm. I am sooooooo excited to get to Kansas City and hold her and kiss those perfect little lips!
As most of you know from my e-mails, Chloe was moved to Children's Mercy hosptial due to a heart condition and will have to undergo surgery. Kelly sent out the following e-mail: The initial diagnosis is not as accurate as we thought. After further testing, a different cardiologist on staff believes that Chloe has a Double Outlet Right Ventricle. A normal heart has one valve on the right ventricle and one valve on the left ventricle. In Chloe's case, she has 2 valves on the right ventricle and zero on the left, thus the term "Double Outlet Right Ventricle". She also has a "hole" between the right and left ventricle called a Ventricular Septal Defect which mixes the red and blue blood together (I believe a normal heart does not do that). The combination forces too much blood into her lung area. Right now, there is no game plan. They want to wait a few days to give Chloe some time to develop and do more testing. Their thoughts right now are that some time soon she will need heart surgery to put in a Pulmonary Artery Band to help restict or slow down the extra blood flow into the lung area. Then they will wait until she is a year or so old to do another heart surgery where they will build a baffle (a barrier or wall) to seperate the valves so each ventricle has its own. If they do that surgery now, the "wall" they build will be so small that she will outgrow it too fast. The doctor heavily emphasized that these next few days will tell us alot. This waiting time will help confirm this new diagnosis and surgeries, however things change and game plans change so we cannot count on anything for sure. The good news is that she is very stable and is in good hands!
Please keep little Chloe, Kelly and Chad in yor thoughts and prayers. Thanks - Gia :)
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I wish the little angel and her family all the best and will keep them in my prayers.
Thanks for the Chloe shout out Gia! And thanks to all of your friends and family for their prayers and support! Times like this really puts things in perspective. I used to overanalyze and worry about stupid, frivilous, mundane things......it makes you appreciate what you have have and not what you dont. you are the BEST gia....LOVE YOU!!!
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