You're to blame!
I am now 5 years into my CHD journey with my son. I am a member of a few CHD related charities and their forums on social media. One thing that keeps coming up is new parents of a CHD child reporting the same thing we went through; namely so-called professionals saying directly or indirectly by inferring, "it's your fault!!" This is just not acceptable. This is a failure by the professionals to do their job or be correctly trained. Are you one of these professionals or training to be one of these: midwife or health visitor? If yes, then this blog post is aimed directly at you! Why? Because we the parents are not to blame; you are! After our son was born he had undiagnosed tongue tie and more seriously an undiagnosed large VSD. The former would be a false positive for the latter in our case. As a result of these issues he struggled to feed, fell asleep quickly while feeding due to the effort required and lost weight or failed to gain weight accordingly. And we were regular