Caring for Heart Children

Talking with doctors and nurses

•  Medical terms
• Talking to Doctors
• Getting a second opinion

Before birth

• What causes congenital heart conditions?
• Prenatal diagnosis

Medicines, devices, equipment and surgery

• Medicines for heart children
• Warfarin
• Immunisations
• Pacemakers
•  Heart transplants

Feeding

• Feeding children with heart conditions
• Tube feeding children with heart conditions

Dental health

• Your child’s teeth

Education

• Information for teachers
• Nursery and early years
• Special educational needs

Leisure

• Holidays with your heart child

Finance and benefits

• Working with a heart child
• Disability Living Allowance

Family members

• Being a grandparent to a heart child

Bereavement

• Grief for the loss of your heart child