Help to Save a Life as Heart Month Closes: Baby Rah'Nae Burrows Needs Heart Surgery

Fri, Mar 2nd 2012, 09:28 AM

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Nassau, Bahamas -

In 2010 Antoine and Jessica Burrows

conceived and prepared to have

a baby

.

They were

very

anxious

and happy

to have another child added to their family. On October 21, 2012 they welcomed their darling baby

Rah'nae De'ajah Burrows

into the world.

Tests were carried out to ensure t

hat she was

healthy. Sadly, it was discovered that she had characteristics of

Down

S

yndrome.

This news

is

not often readily

accepted by

many

new parents; but this couple loved their baby

nonetheless

and saw her as a special gift from God. B

ecause of the existence of such

characteristics

,
concerns arose about the possibility that she may also have heart
disease. After a week in the hospital it was discovered by an
echocardiogram that she had

a large

Primum Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)

, which is a hole in the heart

. She was then referred to Dr

.

Jerome Lightbourne at the

Pediatric Heart Clinic, at Princess Margaret Hospital...

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