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TEEN Mom star Taylor Selfridge has shared a heart-wrenching video of her baby daughter Maya hooked up to oxygen in the hospital.
She and her boyfriend Cory Wharton have been sharing updates with fans during their daughter’s hospitalization.
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Taylor took to her Instagram Story on Saturday to share an update amid her daughter’s health crisis.
She filmed Maya laying in bed with an oxygen tube in her nose and other machines hooked up to her.
She revealed: “Doing better. Still have to be on a little oxygen bc she’s dropping a little below her point when she’s sleeping. Maya’s normal oxygen is between 75-85% for her heart condition.
“It mainly affects her lungs because that is the part of her heart that is missing. She’s always been in the mid-80s to high 80s which is so good for her but she just needs to get past this and she’ll be okay.”
She went on to say: “Her surgery is also delayed at the moment unfortunately until this passes and she’s healthy enough for it.”
Cory, 31, also shared an update of sorts.
He posted a video of Maya laying in her hospital bed playing with a puppy toy.
The Teen Mom dad wrote: “Maya loves this new yo. I got her a lil dog she just holds his ears.”
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STRONG BABY
One day earlier, Taylor shared another update about her baby girl.
Earlier this week, the tot’s father, Cory, brought her to the hospital for what he described as the next step on her path to major surgery.
“Right and left heart catheterization with angiography,” he shared on Instagram.
“Using plastic tubes in the heart to measure the pressure and oxygen levels.”
It seems, however, that something may have gone wrong, leaving the baby struggling to breathe.
Things starting looking up in recent days, however.
On Friday, Taylor provided a happy update, along with a photo of her smiling little girl hooked up to machines keeping watch of her vitals.
“We are happy today.” the 28-year-old mother of two shared. “She is so strong, she literally amazes me and mommy is definitely not as strong, but we got this little mama.”
SECOND SURGERY
The child was in the hospital this past week for what should have been the second of her three required surgeries.
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In an online update, Cory explained: “The plan is to have one of the surgeries done in October, and then after that, we don’t have to worry about it until she’s four years old, so that’s nice.”
Everything seemed to be progressing well with Maya making it through the catheterization process seemingly unscathed.
Cory even shared a quick video Wednesday praising her.
In the clip, Cory cheered for his 4-month-old while holding her up in the air and kissing her sweetly on the cheek.
“Maya, you did it! You did it! I love you, yay!” he quietly said to the tot.
Maya seemed to smile at her father’s encouraging words as he revealed to her that they were going home.
“We’re going home, Mama. Let’s go, let’s go home. Yea, come on.”
Less than 24 hours later, Cory revealed his baby daughter was rushed to ER again.
He shared the heartbreaking update, showing the infant using breathing equipment ahead of her major surgery.
Posting to Instagram, Cory shared a clip of himself cradling Maya at the hospital.
He wrote: “It has been a very long day, we had to bring Maya back to the emergency room.
“She wasn’t getting enough oxygen and was struggling to breathe. Watching your child struggle for air is such a helpless feeling. Never again I pray.”
He assured Teen Mom fans, however: “But now she is stable.”
MAYA’S JOURNEY
Maya was diagnosed with coronary heart disease when she was born.
After the first of what will be at least three heart surgeries, Cory got emotional as he discussed his fears and feelings on an episode of Teen Mom.
“My daughter’s still in the hospital,” he said at the time.
“Now the first surgery did go well, which I’m so thankful for but it’s so hard because she just had that surgery yesterday.
“And so to walk in and see her still lethargic from the anesthesia, you know, my daughter has a ventilator down her throat, oxygen tubes in her nose.”
The emotional father went on to say: ” It’s a lot, man, and I don’t really know how to deal with this.”
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