The concerning symptoms mum spotted in her baby boy before he was diagnosed with heart condition
A mum who's baby boy had to undergo immediate surgery to stop his heart potentially failing has flagged the concerning symptoms she spotted. Katie George is the full-time carer for her two children, six-year-old Jordan and two-year-old Cole, who both have complex medical needs. The Canning Town single mum helps Jordan with “all his self-care needs”, including toileting and feeding, after he was born with the umbilical cord around his neck, depriving him of oxygen and resulting in developmental delays, and he now needs help with “all his self-care needs”, including toileting and feeding. When Cole was born Katie, 26, thought it had been a "textbook" birth but she soon noticed he had several concerning symptoms , including a rash, cough, and “blue tinge to his lips”. Given Katie’s father had several heart conditions – ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, and cardiomegaly, an enlarged heart – and he died aged 64, when she was just 14, these symptoms raised a...