As tiny newborn Gigi Lockwood was wheeled in for open-heart surgery at just seven days old, mum Charlotte remembers her overwhelming feeling was excitement.
It might seem like an unexpected emotion in the face of a seven-hour surgery, but for the Bay of Plenty mum it was a huge relief her baby girl was alive and well enough to undergo the operation after a potentially fatal heart defect was discovered during pregnancy.
“It was scary, but I was just so excited,” recalls Charlotte,
