Just found out....

My mom told me I had one - not too big of a deal. It fixed itself! Hugs mama!

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thank you

My dd has a hole in her heart too. It was diagnosed when she was just born, the ped could hear a murmur.

She had an EKG (oh i was so worried and we were waiting outside the cardiologist's office, I couldn't help crying; dd was crying cause she was cold - we had to wait longer than expected, cause (I think) the cardiologist was explaining to a pregnant woman that her unborn child had a very serious heart defect (couldn't hear what she was saying, but heavily pregnant woman breaking down crying, I'm guessing that was it...) which made me cry even more) and the cardiologist said it was likely to close on its own.

It's one of those things all babies have in the womb, but they normally close at birth. It's fairly common that it doesn't close up straight away though.
ASD I think it's called? (There's also VSD but ASD is what my dd has)

Anyway the cardiologist told me not to worry, it would probably close up, and even if it didn't, it wasn't lifethreatening at all or anything.
Last time at the 6 month checkup, the doc could still hear it...

Dd doesn't seem to have any effect from it at all though, so I try not to think about it (which works most of the time )

But the cardiologist also said that we should get it checked again at 1yo and it would maybe have to be repaired through surgery
I hope that won't be necessary.

Hugs! I know it's scary...

Tracey

Sorry you had to hear such news They suspected a murmur with Evangeline and ped. assured us it was fairly normal. Her's has since gone away, but I did, in the meantime, find out through online searching and anecdotal stuff from folks I know that it really is fairly common and most babies do heal on their own.

they often close by themselves.

It's easy for others to say "don't worry" but when it's your lo, it's impossible. So I won't say it....

But I will offer

Two of my children had that at birth and it closed by the time they had their 2 wk check ups. They're 9 and 7. My cousin had it and hers closed on it's own before her 1st bday. She's 31.

DH had that back when open heart surgery + bypass was experimental. His parents were scaremongered into signing him up for a study. He got the full open heart surgery and bypass at 4yo just to close the ad. My textbooks in school refer to that time period as when bypass had a 50/50 survival rate.

Anyways, iirc, the only thing it's been found to cause in adults, assuming it doesn't close, is a higher risk of sports asthma and fatigue.

thank you everyone for providing me with some IRL accounts. Glad everything turned out well with all of the kids and adults mentioned! I'm sure I'll still do some worrying but, when I actually hear "it will most likely be just fine" from someone who had to deal with it first hand rather than a random doctor it makes me feel a bit better.

My DH has a small hole between two chambers that causes a murmur. He's had it his whole life; he's had it evaluated twice, once as a baby and once recently. Anyway, it doesn't cause him any trouble-- he's an athlete, and bikes ten miles to work every day, and is in great health.

We recently found out my DD2 has the same defect; again, we're told it's benign and won't cause her trouble, but that she should have it evaluated again after puberty, just to be sure. It's funny though-- the murmur can only be heard when she's in certain positions. If she sits up straight it's gone; if she leans back against me, they can hear it again.

It's impossible not to worry. I know that. But try!

I have no advice, but I hope that everything goes well and your baby doesn't need any surgery to repair it (although from the pp's it sounds like the odds are in your favor). You and you baby will be in my thoughts!

My husband had one as a baby and had to have surgery at 3 months old. Everything was fine afterwards and he is fine now even with a murmur.

My ds was born with two holes in his heart.

One has since closed and they believe the other one will also close.

it'll be alright. i had a friend whose baby's hole has closed up she did have to go through some hospital stays and surgery but she's doing so well now!! keep your head and your hopes up!