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I am currently 38 weeks pregnant and my baby has a rare congenital heart defect which is going to mean a lifetime of surgeries. I'm being induced next week in a large hospital a few hours away that has a NICU.

I wish people would stop telling me stories about so and so's baby who had this or that and died. How is that helping me!?! I don't need to hear this right now. Especially when what the babies died of is a common heart defect and my babies defect is worse. If those babies weren't OK, I really worry for my own baby.

People are mean.

No that's ok, you didn't worry me more. You have a sad story to share but it's not the same as your hairdresser telling you that a baby who had heart surgery died after the operation. She started the story "I shouldn't be telling you this but-" :(

No I didn't. I was in hospital. My baby was born on the 2nd and we were in hospital for a few weeks. He's doing good and we avoided open heart surgery for the time being, they were able to do keyhole. So lucky! Do you have the link?