If there's a hole in her heart, save her life“

If there is an extra hole in the heart of most people, they are obviously in danger of life But a "big hole" in Charlotte Lichfield's heart has saved her life! Katie Richfield, 30, and her husband Nick, 30, live in London Last year, Katie was pregnant and underwent a series of prenatal tests Doctors found that the fetus in her abdomen was free of any obvious deformities or defects Last November, her daughter Charlotte finally came to the world The baby girl weighs 3.43 kg and looks very healthy Within 24 hours, however, Katie and her husband Nick found out that their daughter was obviously not normal "She couldn't drink milk properly, and we noticed that her skin began to turn blue," Katie recalled Doctors immediately examined the baby girl Charlotte, and they were shocked to find that the two main blood vessels on Charlotte's heart - the aorta and the pulmonary artery - were upside down and misplaced! This rare case, known as "transposition of the great arteries," means that oxygenated blood from the lungs cannot enter the aorta and therefore cannot be supplied to the vital organs of the body A heart leak can save a baby girl's life, but doctors later found that Charlotte with "transposition of the great arteries" should soon die of blood hypoxia, and could not live for 24 hours So why did she survive? Medical scanning found that there was a big hole in the "heart wall" that originally divided Charlotte's left and right ventricles If this big hole appeared in the heart of ordinary people, it would immediately cause life danger But instead of endangering Charlotte's life, the big hole let the oxygenated blood in her lungs leak into her aorta, which miraculously saved her life! Charlotte's miraculous survival rate is only one in a million! Six hour operation: repair the "heart hole" with raincoat material Ten days after Charlotte's birth, the operation experts carried out up to six hours of heart artery transposition operation on Charlotte, so that the blood in her body can flow correctly through the heart The surgeon then fixed the "big hole" in Charlotte's heart wall with a piece of material commonly used to make waterproof raincoats! My mother is very lucky to have her first birthday Now, Charlotte has already had her first birthday The doctor has checked to make sure that she has recovered completely "She's very healthy now, and she's like other kids with a lot of appetite," Katie said