Congenital heart defect – Inside Noor’s broken heart
Al Jazeera“As they took her into surgery, I asked her to fight, but whispered that I would understand if she could not.” Sweden, Stockholm – I remember the voice in my head when the doctor told us, explaining in precise medical terminology, that our newborn daughter suffered from not one but four congenital heart defects. Becoming Noor For the first eight days of her life, our little girl had been nameless – referred to by the hospital staff simply as baby Mohammed Naib, after my father. And I felt, actually felt, the combined force of people’s prayers – the friends and family around the globe who I knew were praying, in which ever way felt right to them, for Noor. Before this I did not know much about congenital heart defects, but since Noor’s surgery I have educated myself about it.
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