In 2020, while the entire rest of the world was dealing with a pandemic that was full of uncertainty,

Caitlin Becker gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Matthew. His birth, like the world at

large, was also full of uncertainty. Prior to his birth, Caitlin learned that her baby would be

born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a

congenital heart disease that would require multiple open heart surgeries, including one at just six

days old. What would life hold for this little boy? But what does life hold for any of us?

Caitlin Becker says she has learned that nothing in life is guaranteed and the

key is to embrace the scars and the story that mortality gives us. Caitlin Becker is the mother

of three beautiful children and has embraced her role as a heart mom. She and her husband William

are now raising their family in the Boston area.

This is All-LEN, an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-Lend, the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Pearson, and I am so honored to have Caitlin Becker on the line

with me today. Caitlin, welcome. Thanks for having me, Morgan. Well, I invited Caitlin on because I have

been so impressed by the way that you have handled a situation that I think so many people, we just have no idea

what we would do in a situation like the one that you're in. And I feel like you and your husband

for being a young couple have handled it with so much grace. And so I'm so excited to learn from

you today. I wanted to start for listeners to kind of

lay the groundwork for our conversation. I wondered if you could tell me a little bit about

the background of your family and specifically the day that you found out about Matthew's condition.

All right. So my husband and I had just moved to Minnesota and decided to have baby number two.

And then after my 20-week anatomy ultrasound, I was told to go to a specialty clinic the next day for some better

images and to bring my husband. And I felt that it was probably pretty serious. So after

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