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• heart babies - an overview of congenital heart disease and what you can do
• a better start - the benefits of improving detection of congenital heart disease in pregnancy
• screening - when and how to screen for congenital heart disease at the 20-week scan
• experiences - parents share their experience of congenital heart disease, in words and pictures
• support - links to support for parents and families:
  - including Screening & Pregnancy advice & support (Antenatal), UK Maternity Hospitals, NHS Direct  , Children & Adult Heart support & information (Postnatal), Bereavement support
• community - before, during and after pregnancy, plus Nutrition & Health
• links - a list of Congenital Heart Disease (CoHD) links

• Heart Aware (for schools) - a special page for schools

Congenital Heart Disease links

U.K. CHD web sites
BBC Health Online - Heart Babies (article on "heart babies")
British Heart Foundation (see "heart health" > "heart conditions" > "Types of Congenital Heart Disease")
   Also see www.heartstats.org/datapage.asp?id=3388 (Congenital Heart Disease statistics, 2003)
"Congenital Heart disease" - the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heart Disease (also see All Party Parliamentary Group on Maternity)
Children's Heart Federation (information and links to groups in the UK concerned with children's heart conditions)
The NHS Gateway (UK & local information)    |    NHS direct

Babyworld.co.uk - CHD page             |  iVillage.co.uk - pregnancy page       |  Bounty.com - UK parenting website 
Direct.gov: Parents: Having a baby    |  BBC: Parenting: Having a baby
Wellbeing.org.uk: Useful links           |  www.thefamilygrapevine.co.uk 
www.ANGELinas-friends.com -  Includes ... Book Series allows CHD Families & Adults to leave their stories and legacies in a book
Fixing Tiny Tickers: an online exhibition of a heart operation in the womb at the London Science Museum
DrFosterHealth.co.uk: Hospital, Birth and Consultant guides

International & US CHD web sites
The Congenital Heart Information Network, CHIN 
   (also see Defects/Syndromes | Professionals  | Counselling | Genetics)
Heart Encyclopedia (Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Heart Center) - Pediatric Congenital Anomalies (post-natal)
Children & Heart Disease (American Heart Org.: also see Congenital Heart Disease)
US Medline: congenitalheartdisease
Congenital Heart Defects.com (a comprehensive CHD website)
Congenital Heart Disease Resource (some useful links, but no longer updated)

CHD Central

CHD Diagrams & Fetal/Embryo Images &Pictures
How the heart works (award-winning diagrams & movies show congenital heart problems in a heart 'house')
Chicago Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease
Fetal development overview (US Pregnancy Advice Site)
From sperm & egg to 6 weeks (from Make Way for Baby)
The Visible Embryo - all stages of development from conception to birth

References
Heartline Glossary  |  Fetal Heart Disease conditions  |  Wikipedia: Congenital_heart_disease

Why is it "fetus" and not "foetus"?
(BMJ, 1997) BMJ Article 1997  |  Etymology of fetus

General Scientific literature: 
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Other related charities: 
Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust |  BabyLifeline  |  BLISS  | 

More support: 
http://thepsychotherapygroup.co.uk  |  BACP |  UKCP  |  www.Counselling-directory.org.uk  

UK Congenital Heart Disease Statistics

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