A baby is currently awaiting a heart transplant after doctors in Canada dismissed the newborn's "grunting" sounds as being "normal." Parents Stephanie Mulhall-Atkison, 37, and Justin Atkinson, 33, ...

Sloane Atkinson is awaiting a donor heart. Doctors dismissed a newborn’s “grunting” as normal sounds — but six weeks later, the baby was intubated in the PICU, and is now awaiting a heart transplant.

Learning that your newborn has a heart murmur can be scary news. But heart murmurs in newborns are actually extremely common and often harmless. Read on to learn more about what to look out for if ...

A heart murmur is an extra sound that can occur between heartbeats as blood moves through the heart. In babies, it is usually not a cause for concern. Sometimes, however, it can indicate an underlying ...

Your pediatrician listens to your child's heart with a stethoscope to assess its function and health. They hear the first and second heartbeats caused by the valves closing, but they also listen for ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

S1 and S2 are the normal heart sounds you hear when the heart valves close. Heart murmurs are extra sounds that can be heard during systole, diastole, or as a continuous sound. S3 and S4 are abnormal ...

Stephanie Mulhall-Atkinson says her daughter, Sloane, has been living in the hospital for more than 200 days as she awaits a heart transplant Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work ...