“I found that sleeping after open-heart surgery was far more challenging than I had anticipated, and it was something no one fully prepared me for,” says Williams, 34, of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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“I found that sleeping after open-heart surgery was far more challenging than I had anticipated, and it was something no one fully prepared me for,” says Williams, 34, of St. Petersburg, Florida.

In this case, while the baby was mid-delivery, doctors needed to perform open-heart surgery, fixing the communication between the baby's two sides of the heart, and then continue with delivery.