#231 | Heart Moms: One Mother's Journey with Congenital Trans-Position of the Great Arteries

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Jo Young is a "heart mom" from the U.K. Being a heart mom indicates belonging to a community of parents whose children are born with congenital heart defects. The pivotal moment in Jo's story began at her twenty-week anatomy scan with her husband. It was here that they received the life-altering revelation that their baby girl bore a congenital heart defect requiring immediate postpartum surgery. This condition, known as "transposition of the great arteries" (TGA), unveils a complex an...

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0:00.0	And then it came to day 10 where she was actually going to go in for her switch,
0:06.9	which is what they call the procedure, where they switch around the aorta and the artery.
0:13.4	But by this point, she had really started to decline.
0:16.4	She was yellow, where she had jaundice.
0:18.7	She was on CPAP breathing machine. She needed oxygen. Her heart
0:22.9	rate was going so fast. I think at one point she was sort of going 213 beats per minute. She was
0:30.6	getting really poorly, getting really weak. And they called in an emergency surgeon. I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut,
0:40.8	childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse
0:46.8	midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. And this is the down-to-birth
0:51.8	podcast. Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our And this is the Down to Birth Podcast.
0:57.1	Childbirth is something we're made to do.
1:01.6	But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
1:04.5	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hello, my name's Jo. I am a heart parent and I'm here to share my journey of finding out that my
1:20.5	unborn baby had a heart defect and then the following journey through pregnancy and post-pardon.
1:27.7	You said you're a heart parent.
1:30.5	Yes.
1:31.4	That is a term for parents of babies who are born with heart conditions, I assume?
1:37.9	Yes.
1:38.4	It was a label that I had never heard of before, and it's probably one that you don't want to have but
1:48.4	once you have that label and you meet that community it's a community that you'd never be without
1:54.8	they are such a massive support and when we found out that our daughter had a birth defect, turning to that community online,
2:06.7	was just a lifesaver, really.
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