The following are video clips and other responses from an interview with two parents whose son, Jake, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

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• A Routine
• An Entire Life Thing
• Anticipation
• Ask Questions
• Badge of Courage
• Balance Each Other Out
• Behave
• Being Normal
• Better All the Time
• Blankie and Elmo
• Cardiac ICU     
• Coming Home
• Denial/Pretty Amazing
• Figured It Out
• Fix the Transplant
• Go to be Alone
• Handing Him Over
• His Disease
• I.V.s and Bugs
• More Important Than Work
• No More Open Heart Surgeries
• Others Are Sympathetic
• Part of the Process
• People Like Us
• Picture of My Heart
• Staff Assessing the Parents
• Stay for Procedures
• Success for 5 Years
• Supportive Employer
• Team Decisions
• The Day of Diagnosis
• The Liaison Nurse
• They've Been Through It
• Trips to the Hospital
• Updates During Surgery
• Used to the Hospital
• Videos, Friends & Chest Tubes
• Visiting & IV's: A 5 Year Old Sibling View
• We Fight
• Wild Man