{"id":243113,"date":"2021-04-12T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243113"},"modified":"2021-04-09T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T03:50:32","slug":"valentina-home-spending-694-days-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/valentina-home-spending-694-days-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Valentina is home after spending her first 694 days since birth in the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While still tucked safely in her mother’s womb, Valentina Garnetti was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition in which the left side of the heart does not form properly, affecting blood flow in the heart. Those with the condition are often referred to as having “half a heart,” and tragically, abortion is often presented as the ‘solution’. Thankfully, Valentina’s mother has fought for her daughter’s life every step of the way and after 694 days in the hospital, the little girl is finally home with her family.<\/p>\n

“2 years. 694 days old. 694 days spent in the hospital,” her mother Francesca Garnetti wrote on Facebook<\/a>. “The world kept spinning and life went on all while Valentina was stuck inside her little four walls of her hospital room. Valentina has been through so much in her life: 6 surgeries \u2014 4 of them open heart, 14 days on ecmo (life support), 8 heart caths, 28 chest tubes, 2 strokes, seizures, survival flight to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for 9 days for a thoracic duct embolization, 300+ xrays, and thousands of other tests and procedures. Some days I thought this day would never come. We’ve asked for so many prayers and gotten prayers from people all over the world. You can’t tell me that miracles don’t happen because Valentina is one.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Two-year-old thriving after in-utero surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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