{"id":772,"date":"2009-04-22T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/22\/heart-surgery-pregnancy-and-baby-delivery\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:25:11","slug":"heart-surgery-pregnancy-and-baby-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/22\/heart-surgery-pregnancy-and-baby-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Surgery, Pregnancy, Labor And Baby Delivery&#8230; Can You Help Shannon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a very interesting email from Shannon about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/pregnancy-giving-birth\/\">heart surgery, pregnancy, labor and baby delivery<\/a>. In her note to me, Shannon asks for help from other patients about delivering a baby after heart valve surgery. Can you help her?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/baby-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shannon writes, &#8220;Hi Adam! I am a 26-year old female.\u00a0 I will be having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/bicuspid-aortic-valve-symptoms.php\">aortic valve repair (due to a bicuspid aortic valve)<\/a> and aorta replacement (due to an aortic aneurysm) in the next 5-6 weeks.\u00a0 I am fine with having the surgery and scars.\u00a0 However, my husband and I would like to have kids within the next few years.\u00a0 The doctors have said I will be able to carry kids, but are worried about the actual delivery and the various heart conditions they may be born with. I was wondering if you have heard from any women that have been in a similar situation before and may be able to share their experiences with me and my husband. Much love, Shannon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have some thoughts about delivering a baby after heart valve surgery. (In particular, I would think a Caesarean section might reduce the strain and protect the valves during labor and delivery.) However, I have not researched this topic extensively.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I am very curious to know what the regular visitors to this blog think. Can you help Shannon? If so, please leave a comment below or read the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>In advance, thanks so much for helping Shannon!!!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33668,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/33668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}