Mended Little Hearts of Puget Sound

07/18/2026

Support Mended Little Hearts and enjoy a delicious cup of coffee☕️

Heart2Heart coffee is a small-batch, 100% profit-to-charity coffee roasting company that believes “The Essence of Humanity is in Helping Others”. The organization was inspired by business owner Kyle's daughter, Sydney. Sydney was born in June 2015 with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) and had heart surgery just a few days after being born. The family’s experience and journey with CHD motivated them to launch Heart2Heart Coffee🫀

Now through August 15, when you purchase Heart2Heart coffee, 20% of all proceeds will be donated to MLH. Visit the link below to support now⬇️
https://heart2heartcoffeeroasters.com/

07/18/2026

Protect Your Heart Warrior's Scar This Summer ☀️

Planning a day at the pool, park, or beach? 🏝️Don't forget your heart warrior's scar.

Scar tissue is often more sensitive to the sun than the surrounding skin. Even after a scar has healed, sun exposure can cause it to burn more easily.

Help protect your child's scar this summer:
Apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher to fully healed scars 🧴
Cover the area with lightweight clothing or a rash guard when possible 👕
Take breaks in the shade during peak sun hours ☀️
If your child's incision is still healing, follow their healthcare team's guidance before applying sunscreen or other products❤️

A little extra sun protection can help keep your heart warrior comfortable while enjoying summer adventures.

06/30/2026

Sound on for adorable baby howls! The seven-week-old Red Wolf pups ...

06/30/2026

06/20/2026

Kids eat for free at the Mary Bridge Children's Tacoma Outpatient Center and Pierce Co. library as part of the USDA Summer Food Service Program.

05/27/2026

Our hearts are so heavy as we share the passing of sweet Christopher, who lost his battle due to complications from a heart transplant. C and his mom have been a cherished part of the Mended Little Hearts of Puget Sound community from the beginning, and we want to surround them with love, support, and prayers during this unimaginable time.

If you are able, please consider donating to help support the family during this difficult time. If donating is not possible, prayers, kind thoughts, and sharing this post are deeply appreciated as well.

Please keep C’s family, friends, and everyone who loved him in your prayers. ❤️

Click here to support "❤️Christopher Orona ❤️" by Andrea on FreeFunder!

04/11/2026

How do you explain…
what it feels like to hand your baby to a surgeon and not know if you will ever hold them the same way again?
How do you explain…
watching machines breathe for your child.
Watching machines beat for your child.
Watching a monitor tell you whether your baby is still here
because your own eyes are too terrified to trust themselves.
How do you explain…
the moment a doctor looked at you and said
hour by hour.
Day by day.
And you had to find a way to keep breathing inside those words.
How do you explain…
holding more gratitude than you knew a human heart could carry
while still holding more trauma than any parent should ever have to know?
How do you explain loving a child so completely
that the moment you almost lost them
broke something in you
that a discharge paper and a “she’s doing great” will never fix?
You don’t.
You can’t.
Because there are no words big enough.
And unless someone has sat in that waiting room.
Unless someone has learned to read a cardiac monitor at 2am because their child’s life depended on it.
Unless someone has kissed a forehead connected to more wires than they could count —
They will never fully understand what you are trying to say.
CHD trauma does not end at discharge.
It lives in the mother who still checks if her child is breathing in the middle of the night.
It lives in the father who hears a monitor beep in a store and feels his whole body go cold.
It lives in the sibling who grew up knowing things no child should have to know.
It lives in the family that came home forever changed and had to figure out how to be normal in a life that would never feel normal again.
And time does not heal it.
Time just teaches you how to carry it.
How to tuck it beside the gratitude.
How to smile at a milestone and cry in the car on the way home.
How to love fiercely and be terrified quietly at the exact same time.
If you are carrying this —
the joy and the grief living side by side —
you are not broken.
You are a CHD family.
And you were never meant to carry this alone.
💙 Drop a 💙 if this is your reality.

Share this for every CHD family who has been searching for the words to describe something this big.