Meanings
plural heart babies
- informalA baby born with a heart condition.
Later I was admitted to the hospital to learn how to care for a “heart” baby before he was discharged, and the doctors came in to deliver conflicting reports.
2010, Laura C. Bower, WordSpeak: His Word, Your Voice, page 311 more example
The parents had several children who were healthy and now a heart baby. Their baby's heart could be repaired however and I thought it was depressing to talk to the mother of the other child. I knew that Jason's heart couldn't be repaired.
2014, Tedi Tuttle Wixom, A Whisper of Spring time: Jason’s Heart Transplant Miracle
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heart baby. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heart%20baby
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