Pediatric Cardiologist update

Pediatric Cardiologist update: Leigh was supposed to get to go to this appointment to meet the Dr. and hopefully understand more of what's going on with our baby girl, but when he got home, the van wouldn't start. He very quickly pulled the car over and tried to jump it, but to no avail, so I ended up going alone. I greatly dislike going to the doctor's alone. Anyways, everything they saw was the same, the Dr. didn't think that the baby has a VSD. There was one section of the wall on the ultrasound that kept going in and out, but there wasn't any flow between it, so he thinks it was just the angle at which they were looking. He said they studied the pictures for a long time after I left last time and counted different beats and stuff. She has 2nd degree heart block. I'm not quite sure what this means for her, I think it's still a wait and see type thing. Her heart will beat slower than it should, so it still kind of depends on how she is able to adapt to that along with the other things wrong with her heart.

The dr. didn't know exactly what the immediate birth plan and such would be like as far as rushing her off to the NICU, etc. He thought that as long as she handled everything fine, it would be reasonable for them to only keep her about 24 hrs. in the NICU for observation and to run tests and stuff (EKG and heart ultrasounds specifically, not sure what else)  and then transition her back to the nursery. In the third trimester he presents each case to the neonatologists and other drs. at the hospital and they determine a plan of action. With our little girl, it's different because she won't be needing surgery as far as we know, so our Ped. Card. isn't quite sure what they'll recommend, or how aggressive they'll be. He said several times that her biggest transition would be right after she's born and the blood flow changes to just her heart. So, we're praying that she adjusts well and everything regulates properly. Hopefully he'll have a little more of an idea what to expect at our next appointment.

(Leigh charged the van's battery and it has worked fine since then) :)