Infant Heart Surgery

" Ten month old -- Francis can be a handful for his mom. But no challenge this little guy ever presents will compare to five gut wrenching weeks during Suzanne Francis is pregnancy."

" It was just one of the scariest things. You could ever go there."

" At thirteen weeks Francis was told her baby was in trouble. -- was building up around his heart a condition that could be fatal."

" Does this -- the baby could have -- been in -- congestive heart failure. All are the baby's lungs would not have done up properly and he would've not been able to survive after."

" The only answer was to drain the fluid but to do that doctor -- would have to run a needle into Suzanne Francis is still make. To a baby's heart that was the size of a quarter. Doctor for a told the francis'. It'd been done only ten times --"

" Four I felt like wow what -- be the Guinea pig here. And how do we know it's gonna work."

" Faced with those life and death questions Suzanne and husband Robert wrestled with the decision on what to do. Five weeks later they went ahead with a rare procedure and ultrasound machine like this one help guide doctors to that tiny area around baby -- is part. The amount of -- they withdrew to save his life. Was less than a teaspoon. That was enough to make a difference because the hardest so small at this time maybe Dante was born healthy and remain so today. A bouncing baby brother -- four year old Madeleine. Mom calls -- her miracle."

" Operating on Beatles you know I mean who's ever heard that. So I mean it is it's quite miraculous. -- circle New York nightly news."