With my daughter being a heart baby. Every year I make sure I do something for the week of Feb 7th-14th. The last two year we wore pins and bracelets. We also have sweatshirts with her name on it. I wanted to spread the word to all my readers a little bit of information about Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.
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What is CHD Awareness Week?
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| CHD Awareness Week is an annual awareness effort to help educate the public about Congenital Heart Defects. Participants include individuals, local support groups, national and local organizations and congenital cardiology centers throughout the world! |
Why is it important?
Congenital Heart Disease is considered to be the most common birth defect, and is a leading cause of birth-defect related deaths worldwide. Despite the fact that CHD affects approximately 1.8 millions families in the U.S., a relatively small amount of funding is currently available for parent/patient educational services, research, and support. By sharing our experiences and providing information, we hope to raise public awareness about conditions that affect approximately 40,000 babies each year in the United States alone. It is our sincere hope that efforts to educate the public will result in improved early diagnosis, additional funding for support and educational services, scientific research, and access to quality of care for our children and adults.
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What a great way to spread the word. Certainly will be a busy week for us CHD moms.
Thanks Kristine. But your baby Cora is helping so many right now and it’s so exciting!!
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I’m glad you’re excited, too. Gets me through the day.
That is a great idea to spread the messsage. I am also a heart mom and stumbled across your blog today!
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I love stuff like this to raise awareness. I’m doing a campaign with Macy’s to do heart disease awareness too.
Everyone get your red on.
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