Chatham Chandler came into the world on Sept. 24, 2024, in Columbus, looking every bit like a healthy newborn. No prenatal scans had flagged anything unusual. Her family had no reason to worry.
Then a doctor heard something.
The sound was faint — an abnormal murmur picked up during routine post-birth exams. Doctors initially brushed it off as a common, benign murmur. But a week later, Chatham’s pediatrician listened again and thought it sounded different. That instinct sent the family to the Heart Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where pediatric cardiologists Dr. Wesley Blackwood and Dr. Andrew Dodgen took a closer look…