Heart for a heart

I was 11 days postpartum when I got diagnosed with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and was asked to not as much as hold my baby unless seated. I was asked to look for someone else to care for my child and to stop breastfeeding completely.

As a new mother this made my skin crawl, my EF was at 32% and having lost my father to Dilated Cardiomyopathy it made me question where I stood and what this meant for my family.

After 10 months of treatment my EF finally came up to 52% but in the light of recent events it went down to 35% again. Disheartening, but not the end of the world, the fight goes on.

I have enrolled myself for a Cardiac Rehab programme which helps me track my vitals, medications, diet & exercises for a holistic approach towards living with a cardiovascular disease.

For what has been ‘postpartum on steroids’ as I like to call it, every day has been a beautiful discovery of new strength & inventing a new person all over again by letting go of the old version of myself and moving forward as a new mother & heart patient all at the age of 28.