Aiden's Heart Murmur

 The morning after Aiden was born when the nurses were switching shifts we learned that he had a heart murmur.  The doctor told us it was probably no big deal and not to worry about it. He said it should go away by 24 hours. When 24 hours was over he still had the heart murmur so the doctor said to give it 48 hours. At 48 hours he still had a heart murmur so they decided to do an echocardiogram. They did the echo and then sent us on our way before having results. We had an hour drive and when we got home there was a message from our doctor that they had read his echo and his heart murmur was a bigger deal than they thought. We learned that he has a unicuspid aortic valve with moderate aortic stenosis. Basically he only has one cuspid on his aortic valve instead of the three he's supposed to have and his valve was narrowing causing additional pressure. There was also mild leakage. They were concerned because things can turn south rather quickly with a newborn in regards to heart problems.  They wanted us to bring him back the next day to get checked and then we had several follow ups with the cardiologist.  By the end of October things had started getting worse and he was to the point that his pressures on the valve were too much and they decided he needed to have a balloon valvoplasty. He was scheduled for November 3rd. We let the members of our ward know what was going on an they decided to do a fast for him the Sunday before the procedure.  We went in for the procedure on the 3rd expecting to stay the night in the hospital after the procedure.  We also were expecting a couple hours for the procedure. After about 35 minutes we received word that he was done.  We went to go meet with the doctor and he said everything went really well and they learned a lot by doing the procedure but they ended up not doing the balloon valvoplasty only a catheterization because once they got into his heart they discovered his pressures were much better than the echo showed and they didn't need to increase the hole size at all. They also learned that he has an aortic aneurysm which they weren't aware of before.  He said he didn't understand how he had improved.  They could see the slight hardening of his heart that had them worried but the pressure wasn't where it had been.  We knew that it was a miracle from the lord because of the fast that we had done. We also didn't have to stay the night in the hospital because he didn't have the balloon valvoplasty done. We just waited 6 hours for the hole to heal enough so that we could go home. He has been doing well since the procedure.