{"id":4090,"date":"2014-04-02T01:18:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:53:36","slug":"emilys-story-is-all-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/emilys-story-is-all-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily&#8217;s story is all heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/189577-261855e8-b930-11e3-9580-78f49dffd642.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4091\" alt=\"189577-261855e8-b930-11e3-9580-78f49dffd642\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/189577-261855e8-b930-11e3-9580-78f49dffd642-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jay Town<\/p>\n<p>Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital neonatologist Julia Gunn is the doctor no parent wants to meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But if they need to, they are eternally grateful she is manning the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, caring for the sickest babies in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>She watched hundreds of hours of open heart surgery on newborns as part of her PhD into congenital heart disease, and is researching the developmental effects on children who have surgery in their first months of life.<\/p>\n<p>But none of this helped when Dr Gunn and husband Matthew Charlton became parents to daughter Emily, who was born with a congenital heart defect.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/dr-julia-gunn-says-being-a-neonatologist-didnt-prepare-her-for-having-a-seriously-ill-baby\/story-fnls7nyz-1226872189626\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full Herald Sun story.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the Good Friday Appeal head to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone (03) 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCH neonatologist Dr Julie Gunn became an RCH parent when her baby girl Emily was born with congenital heart disease and spent time on Butterfly (Newborn Intensive Care).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}