Imagine being told that your baby’s heart was backward.

“You are never prepared for anything like this,” Jennifer says. When she was 20 weeks pregnant, her doctor diagnosed baby Conner with heterotaxy, a rare condition in which internal organs are arranged abnormally.

Upon his arrival at 39 weeks, Conner came to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, where doctors quickly determined he would need a heart transplant.

At two months old, Conner got his new heart. “That first year was complete chaos, but I knew God put us at Cardinal Glennon for a reason,” says Jennifer.