Hallie's Heart Echo

When Hallie was born they heard a murmur but after seeing a pediatric cardiologist at a year they decided to wait and see if it would go away on its own(I guess 80% close in the 1st 5 years). When I took Hallie to her 3 yr check her pediatrician decided that it was time for an official dx and the way to do that was a heart echo. We went in on Thursday morning, we left Gracie with a babysitter so I wouldn't have to wake 2 of them up and ready. I woke Hallie up just in time to get to the hospital. For a couple days before I had been talking to her about it and we had played dr to show her what it would be like(I think in retrospect it helped ALOT). When we got there we were met by child life who gave her a doll, ball, and bubbles. 

 She got to draw a face on her dolly and get her dressed in the same kind of gown she had to wear for her echo.

 Then it was time for the echo...they put on her monitors and she watch Tangled with her blankie while they completed the test. She did great and never whined once. They had peds sedation there just in case but she was very cooperative so that made it easier.

 When we were done she got stickers and a color book. She was very proud of all of her prizes.

 Then we waited for the results so to kill sometime we watched a movie and ate cookies while Gracie had a rest.

 They called shortly after lunch and said the murmur that was almost so small they could hardly see it would be dx as an innocent murmur but could possible close itself by the age of five. It is a ASD(atrial septal defect) with a flap that was causing the murmur. It was quite a relief to know our sweet girl is a-ok

 That night before we put her to bed once I had taken her hair out it was crazy but she thought it was so cute...like princess hair.

That night I went to make sure she was tucked in before Matt and I went to bed to find her surrounded by her baby stuff. Cradle and stroller next to the bed, diaper bag by her side and the babies lined up next to her all tucked in for the night. She is at such a fun stage...but then again I think that about all of them!