"I want to wear what he wears," dad Eric Conklin tells PEOPLE of his son Bennett, who was born with a congenital heart defect Eric Conklin/Instagram As Eric and Cristina Conklin prepared to welcomed ...

Sarah Sue Morbitzer never wanted to hide what made her different. After being born with tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect, Morbitzer was forced into open-heart surgery at 4 months old, ...

A beauty pageant contest who underwent open heart surgery has said the scar on her chest has encouraged her to be more confident in her own skin. Crystal Pincott, from Taunton in Somerset, underwent ...

A surgeon credited with saving a little girl from a deadly heart defect just saved another member of the same family. Balien Albrecht appears healthy except for the open heart surgery scar on his tiny ...

One New Jersey dad is determined to show his young son that his surgery scars are a source of strength — so, he got his own version tattooed on his chest. Eric Conklin welcomed his first child with ...