Intro

"Congenital heart defect" 3 words i do not wish up my worst enemy, and not the words any expectant mother absorbs well.
WTF does congenital even mean?! thats what i thought to myself as my world came crashing down in a room full of doctors.
I'd just had a second scan on my baby's heart done at 23 weeks.
"Your baby has Tetralogy of Fallot" (again me going WTF? please right that down so i can consult dr google when i get home!) a blurr of words, the ones that stuck out were hole and open heart surgery, the mention of an amnio and termination.....what a fabulous day.
I sit and cry for a while, cuddled by my gem of a student midwife, having no idea what the future holds for us or our precious baby. She turns to me and says hearts can be fixed, he's going to be ok.
We go back into the screening room to have the amnio done, TOF can be linked to downs and 22q deletion and they want to rule it out.
procedure is done, all straight forward, a final glimps of our monkey before we head home to process eveything.
Amnio results come back the very next day, all is well
And now here we are 27/3 and still processing. in about a month we'll have another heart scan done to see how he;s going, and 2 days later a follow up appointment with the specialists to ask all the questions on my ever growing list.

Baby is well, i know he is, he's so much more active than his sisters ever were and so so strong.
only 10 more weeks until we meet our little man....a prospect that is both so so exciting, yet absolutely terrifying at the same time.