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Child Life On Call: Parents of children with an illness or medical condition share their stories wit


Episode 24 | Jade Marie’s Story - A daughter with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

March 26, 2019

At 16 years old and after being told she could never have children, Jade Marie was shocked to learn that she was 16 weeks pregnant. At at an emergency ultrasound less than 24 hours later, she learned that the baby inside of her had one of the most severe heart defects - she was missing the entire left side of heart. 

In this epsidoe, we will hear Jade Marie describe what the journey with her daughter, Dawn Louise, has been like and what it is like to have a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.