Well, the clan is still growing. Camden Xavier Yenglin was born to Toni and Jason Yenglin on Tuesday, February 18.

Toni is Diane’s youngest of three daughters. She and Jason were married on October 10, 2010 (10-10-10).

He is currently employed by Upper Deck sports cards in the San Diego area. Toni has been employed in retail sales with Roberto Cavali in Las Vegas. You may know her from her days as a varsity cheerleader at Fountain Hills High School or as an assistant manager at the local Target and McDonald’s.

Camden was delivered by C section and weighed in at seven pounds, three ounces at Sunrise Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas.

He was born with a congenital heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot, or TOF. We had plenty of time to prepare ourselves and research this heart condition after it showed up on an ultrasound about three months ago.

It is a combination of four different heart problems. The four problems, or “defects” are Pulmonary Stenosis (PS) Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) an Overriding of the Aorta and Right Ventricle Hypertrophy.

When the pulmonary artery is blocked , the condition is called Pulmonary Stenosis. The blockage may be the result of too much muscle below the Pulmonary Valve or that the valve itself is too small or unable to open all the way. The blood vessel (the main Pulmonary Artery) may also be too narrow above the valve. This causes restricted, or no blood flow to the lungs, resulting in low oxygen levels and causing the heart to work much harder than it should.

A Ventricual Septal Defect (VSD) is a hole between the two lower pumping chambers (Ventricles) of the heart. This is the most common of all Congenital Heart Defects.

In TOF, the hole is very large and situated under the Aorta. This hole is causing a mix of oxygen and oxygen-poor blood, which results in low Oxygen levels throughout the entire body. The pressure is also the same in both ventricles resulting in an enlarged heart.

Normally, the Aorta comes from the left lower chamber of the heart, known as the left ventricle. The Aorta is the largest blood vessel in the heart and is supposed to carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to all parts of the body. When the Aorta is described as Overriding, it means that the vessel is inappropriately positioned and straddles both the right and left ventricle just above the VSD.

The Right Ventricle is the lower chamber of the heart that pumps oxygen- poor or “blue” blood to the Pulmonary Arteries. Normally the Right Ventricle muscle is thin. Hypertrophy means the muscle wall of the chamber has become thickened. This occurs in TOF because of the extra work the muscle must do to pump the blood past the blocked Pulmonary Artery (the PS) as well as pump the blood to the high pressure Aorta.

Little Camden is facing several open heart surgeries to correct this condition. He was born with good color and the prospects are good that he will lead a normal life.

Olympic snowboarder Shaun White was born with TOF and he certainly has led an active lifestyle.

Diane was with Toni last week for the birth of Camden. She said he is the “cutest little thing.” It looks like we’ll be making frequent trips to Vegas this year.