I found out at what was supposed to a routine 7 month ultrasound that my son Wyatt was diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. They told me that he only had 5% of his lungs and that they weren’t viable. On June 11, 2012 he was born. He had 80% of his diaphragm missing and that his stomach and intestines were in his chest. Which forced his heart into the right wall of the rib cage, and that his lungs had been crushed by his intestines and stomach. He only had a fourth of a lung and the other a half. At 1 hour old he was placed on ECMO and stayed that way for over a week. They attempted to do his repair surgery but his body was too small to hold his intestines and stomach. So they placed them in a silo. He stayed that way for another week and half. Then they placed a patch in to help stretch the abdomen. After a little over a week they finally closed him up. From there he has been on oscillators, to ventilators, to oxygen with a cannula. We had to work on feeds to get him off the feeding tubes. But he kept aspirating, so they figured out that he has a paralyzed vocal cord. Doc wanted to place a g tube but I fought it and said that he would eat on his own time, and he did. Now everything he is battling is because of the horrible CDH monster. He has Apnea, malrotation of the intestines, weakness in the left side of the body, laryngomalacia, astma, his heart was on the wrong side of his chest and he has a murmur still. surgery has been done to correct his heart issues, but the murmur remains.. And reflux, along with other neurological issues that we are waiting to admit to the hospital for testing. BUT they said that talking and walk and not being on oxygen were probably not in his future. Wyatt screams and talk and runs and jumps and just got off his oxygen a month or so ago.