![]() ![]() “We thought maybe they just hadn’t seen the ultrasound properly.”įour months later, after surgery and an eight-week stay at Seattle Children’s Hospital for her newborn, Job, she and her husband found themselves back home in a rural area of Tacoma, Washington, with a medically fragile infant who needed constant monitoring until his next surgery in six months. “The disease was so rare and severe that I never considered it would be in our future,” she says. Parkinson, who has two other healthy children, researched HLHS but didn’t dwell on it too much. ![]() When Autumn Parkinson was 26 weeks pregnant, her doctor asked her to come back in for another ultrasound to make sure her baby’s heart didn’t have only one ventricle, a serious congenital disease called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS).
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