In this fathers day (14), the Fantastic shows a moment that the family of actor Juliano Cazarré and his wife Letícia Cazarré have been waiting for a long time. Two of the couple’s children eventually met their younger sister, Maria Guilhermina, who was born with a rare heart condition. Check it out in the video above.
Letícia stayed away from the couple’s four children (Vicente, Inácio, Gaspar and Maria Madalena) for two months to look after Maria Guilhermina in São Paulo. During this time, Cazarré stayed at home in Rio with the children.
Maria Guilhermina was diagnosed during pregnancy Ebstein’s anomalyWhen one of the heart valves forms in the wrong placewho can disturb blood passage. According to doctor José Pedro, about 1 to 2% of all congenital heart defects are affected. “Some cases are so severe that the child dies in fetal life. It is not born,” explains the doctor.
The disease progressed to the most severe form and Maria’s delivery had to be brought forward by a month Maria Guilhermina was born on June 21 and weighed 2.5 kg and 48 centimetres. The baby underwent heart surgery shortly after birth. “The operation lasted 10 hours,” recalls the actor, who plays Alcides on the soap opera Pantanal.
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“I had already asked to leave a glass of water there, because if the baby is born in danger of life, you can do this emergency baptism. So I baptized her, it was a very emotional moment,” says Cazarré.
When asked if he ever believed his daughter would not survive, he says: “I had hopes, but I didn’t know.”
Soon Maria Guilhermina will be operated on again to finally fix the problem. Before the new operation, she has to undergo regular clinical examinations.
This Sunday (14) Juliano Cazarré posted:
“I took the older ones to São Paulo by car so we could all hang out fathers day and the birthday of Inácio, who is one of the children, but good God wanted it to be different. Maria Guilhermina eventually had to undergo emergency surgery. It worked, she’s fine and the first tests are very positive,” the actor wrote.
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