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In October 2019, my husband Patrick and I received the news we had been waiting for—we were expecting our first child, a baby girl. We were overjoyed and couldn’t wait to start this new chapter of our lives. Little did we know, our excitement would soon be overshadowed by the overwhelming fear of an unexpected diagnosis that would alter the course of our pregnancy and our lives forever.
At our 16-week ultrasound, we were blindsided by devastating news. We learned that our daughter, whom we had already named Scarlett, had been diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). The left side of her diaphragm had failed to form, causing her stomach, spleen, intestines, and most of her liver to shift into her chest.
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