Addie's pregnancy was quite normal and I had decided to have a repeat caesarean because her brother was an emergency and I really didn't want to have that experience again. Her due date was January 15, 2007 and the OB had scheduled her delivery for January 3, 2007. On the evening of December 19, 2006 I had noticed her movement decreasing and mentioned it to my husband. He told me to get some rest so I curled up on the sofa and did "kick counts" to easy my mind. The next morning I woke at around 7 am and went to the washroom where my water broke on the floor. After a couple of phone calls it was decided that I go to the hospital for monitoring and the OB on call would schedule my caesarean for sometime that day (I have never gotten any contractions with either of my children after pre-rupture of membranes). After brief fetal monitoring, I was scheduled for immediate delivery as Addie was in distress. We later found out her cord was wrapped around her neck and body. She was a small baby as she was only 36 weeks and weighed 6 lbs and was 21 inches long but she was doing very well, and so was I. We were discharged the following morning.

During my hospital stay my 16 month old son visited and contracted RSV. He later passed it to Addison when she was 2 weeks old. I had noticed her struggling to breathe and decided to take her to see the doctor. The doctor noticed immediately that her heart was racing and he called the pediatrician at the local hospital to arrange for us to go directly there. When we arrive her heart was beating at 252bpm and she was given digoxin which didn't work; she was then given ice on the face which had no effect either. An ECG was done and as soon as the pediatrician seen it he called the Children's hospital about 40km away we were then transported to there by a cardiac team. From here it was all a blur. We arrive in the trauma unit where her heart was restarted three times to no effect and then transferred to ICU where we stayed for six days before going to the cardiac floor. In ICU her diagnosis was made: Congenital Junctional Ectopic Tachycardia or JET. She was put on propafanone which worked for about a week and then it stopped, so she was switched to Flecinide which she is currently still on. We were in the hospital for 11 days, now she goes in every two weeks for ECG, echo and every 4 weeks a 24-hour holter monitor. We are unsure of her future at this point.

April 2007 Update

Addison was hospitalized on March 27th as she was up at 226bpm and the Flecinide had stopped working. She was switched to Amiodarone and that was not successful either. we made an emergency helijet flight to Edmonton's Strolley Children's Hospital where she under went an ablation catheter. She is doing very well and staying in sinus rhythm at 120 bpm. We hope this will not change and require a pacemaker in the future.