The Teen Mom OG star Cory Wharton revealed on Wednesday that his youngest daughter was undergoing open-heart surgery.
The 31-year-old reality star shared a sweet photo of himself holding his seven-month-old daughter Maya in what looked like a hospital setting, while he was masked up.
This appears to be the second planned open-heart surgery for the little girl, who previously had surgery performed just days after she was born to correct her tricuspid atresia.
The congenital heart defect occurs when the heart’s tricuspid valve is underdeveloped, which prevents oxygen-poor blood from being properly pumped to the lungs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hoping for the best: Teen Mom OG star Cory Wharton, 31, asked for prayers on Wednesday as he revealed that his seven-month-old daughter Maya would be undergoing open-heart surgery that day
People with the condition can easily get tired or out of breath, and multiple surgeries are required to treat the issue.
‘The day is finally here @mayagrace.wharton has her open heart surgery today ❤️,’ Cory began his caption. ‘All I’m asking, is for everybody to keep us in your prayers and keep praying for her & the doctors that will be working on her heart ❤️.
‘We have been anticipating this day for so long all the anxiety that has built up for months. I just can’t wait for her heart to be fixed,’ he continued. ‘Then we can move on from this chapter. Again thank you all, & I’ll keep you all updated.’
Later, he posted a black screen to his Instagram Stories featuring a single praying hands emoji, and a follow-up throwback clip showed him on a monitor as he held his daughter and gave her a kiss.
Family: Cory and his girlfriend Taylor Selfridge welcomed Maya on June 1, but just 10 days later she had to have the first of multiple surgeries to correct her tricuspid atresia
Nervous: ‘We have been anticipating this day for so long all the anxiety that has built up for months. I just can’t wait for her heart to be fixed,’ Cory wrote on Instagram
‘Prayers for Maya today, she has her open heart surgery,’ he captioned it.
A subsequent video showed Cory and Maya back in the hospital ahead of her surgery, and he wrote that it as taken at 6:41 a.m.
‘It’s time, all these months we’ve been waiting for today, it’s just a unreal feeling because you want her to be OK in the long run,’ he wrote. ‘But you don’t want her to be in pain that’s my biggest thing. Anybody that knows as a parent seeing your kid in pain and not being able to help is the worst feeling in the world.’
Maya originally had open-heart surgery just 10 days after her June 1 birth, but it is common for children suffering from tricuspid atresia to have a second surgery around four to six months.
Awful situation: ‘Anybody that knows as a parent seeing your kid in pain and not being able to help is the worst feeling in the world,’ he wrote shortly before Maya went into surgery
Cory shared in a previous post that her doctors said she would have a third surgery when she was around three to four years old.
The Challenge star and his girlfriend and his girlfriend Taylor Selfridge are also parents to a two-year-old daughter named Mila Mae, and he additionally shares his five-year-old daughter Ryder with his ex-girlfriend Cheyenne Floyd, who appeared on Teen Mom OG with him.
Cory and Taylor fell in love after appearing on the first season of MTV’s Ex On The Beach in 2018, and the later got their own Teen Mom OG spinoff from the network, but it was canceled in June of 2020 after Taylor’s old racist tweets resurfaced.
Growing family: The Challenge star and his girlfriend and his girlfriend Taylor Selfridge are also parents to a two-year-old daughter named Mila Mae, and he additionally shares five-year-old daughter Ryder with his ex-girlfriend Cheyenne Floyd
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