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we're praying for the best!

Our baby girl was born July 29th she was 2 1/2 weeks early. I was dilated to a 5 and she still hadn't flipped so I had to have a c section. She had the normal fluid in her lungs as do most babies c section then she wasn't able to keep her blood sugar up. Well got those taken care of and she had her one week appointment they gave us an OK to change her feeding and noticed she wasn't eating the same that night figured we messed up her schedule by that and everyone holding her well the next day each feeding she ate less then 1oz so I took her to the doctors and they found a heart murmur they sent her to children's and found her aortic valve is closing and she's depending on the valve that helps babies in the womb that closes within a couple weeks after birth. So she is on meds to keep both open and Monday she goes in for surgery and they are gonna try to do a bypass on the heart. Without the surgery they said she will only live 2 weeks. We're praying everything goes well Monday and soon I can hold my baby girl again.
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Best of luck and hoping surgery goes well for the little one.
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Your family is in my prayers, I hope everything goes smoothly.
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Oh wow, I hope everything works out. It sounds like the doctors have a plan. You and your daughter are in my thoughts.
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