If Your Toddler Needs Open Heart Surgery

The concept for this blog post was originally created for babies who need open heart surgery. I am now expanding on this to create suggestions for toddlers who need open heart surgery. We are hereby soliciting experienced advice to help other parents prepare for this situation! We want this to be an ongoing project

• If you have any ideas and/or short anecdotes to contribute, please put them in replies to this post for us to consider. We put quotation marks around all the advice that came from friends. 
• If you are a relative or friend of the toddler’s parents, please check out the last section of this page for ideas of how you can help lift their load. 
• Thank you to everyone who is helping to contribute to this list!