The Imam’s Daughter

Tomorrow at 7:30 am Mohamad is scheduled to have a circumcision AND his yearly heart ultrasound checkup at the same time. I scheduled the circumcision to be after he turned 1 so that they could be done at the same time and he won’t have to go through anesthesia twice. He wasn’t able to get […]

At 10 days old, baby Mohamad was moved from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) to the step down unit which is still on the cardiac floor but it is a regular hospital room with the normal level of care. Here, a parent must be with the baby at almost all times because the nurses […]

On his fifth day of life, April 11 2007, my newborn baby Mohamad had his Arterial Switch operation - an open heart surgery - at Children’s Hospital Boston. At that time i was going through painful engorgement after my milk came in, having to pump every few hours, soreness from labor, postpartum bleeding, fatigue, and so much […]

My third child, Mohamad, will be two months old on thursday! As some of you know, i had a baby boy two months ago and i knew from the 18 week ultrasound about his heart defect - transposition of the great arteries, where the two major arteries in the heart are connected to the opposite places than where they are […]

Please keep the baby in your prayers. I am writing from the hospital. I know you’re not going to believe this, but Mohamad is back at Children’s Hospital recovering in the Cardiac Intensive care after a minor surgery to remove a testicular tumor that the pediatrician noticed last week. It was all so sudden and quick […]