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Competing in nearly a dozen seasons of The Challenge, MTV prima Cory Wharton has gone shoulder-to-very-muscled-shoulder with immoderate of the champion successful the game. But to the four-time finalist, 13-month-old girl Maya is the existent champ.
"She's struggling to breathe," helium shared successful an exclusive clip from the July 19 premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, discussing her ongoing battle with congenital bosom information tricuspid atresia.
Watching her combat to drawback each breath, he said to woman Taylor Selfridge, besides ma to his 3-year-old girl Mila, "and past her look is turning purple and I'm conscionable like, 'I don't cognize what to bash close now.'"
Thankfully, doctors did, Cory noting successful the preview it was clip for the second in a trio of procedures designed to assistance the then-7-month-old's lungs get the oxygen her assemblage needs. (The archetypal took spot earlier the newborn was adjacent released from the hospital past June.)
"It's clip for her to get that country done," helium told Taylor. "The big one. The 1 that we've been talking astir for truthful long."
Or, arsenic Taylor enactment it, "The 1 that I don't privation to do."
For the ma of two, who archetypal competed connected the fifth play of the network's dating bid Are You The One?, the imaginable of her baby miss going nether the weapon was terrifying.
"It's an open-heart surgery," the 29-year-old outlined successful the clip. "I effort to enactment positive, but I get overwhelmed with the negatives, too. Well, not negatives, but risks."
Though Cory, 32, admitted, "I'm nervous, I'm scared, conscionable similar you are," helium was besides assured successful his tiny warrior. "She's going to beryllium fine," helium assured his girlfriend. "You cognize that she is."
Fortunately, Dad was right, announcing successful January that Maya "had a palmy Glenn procedure!"
The betterment aft the open-heart surgery, however, was a spot dicier. "Mayas [sic] oxygen levels were little than the doctors wanted it to be," helium explained successful his Jan. 18 post adding that six days aft the archetypal procedure, "she ended up backmost successful the operating country for a Cath laboratory process to hopefully hole what they thought was the problem. It turned retired that determination was thing to fix, which was large but it didn't afloat explicate the oxygen levels being truthful low."
A "roller coaster thrust of emotions" followed, helium added, but, "I'm conscionable blessed & thankful to beryllium home."
Taylor similarly told followers that she felt "blessed" to person her youngest astatine location with the remainder of the brood, which besides includes Ryder, Cory's 6-year-old girl with chap Teen Mom prima Cheyenne Floyd.
"Cory and I had truthful galore ups and downs with Maya," shared Taylor, "it was the astir stressful happening successful I deliberation some of our lives and I volition retrieve this forever. That each being said, Maya's bosom country is moving amazing! She has 1 large 1 near but delight deity not for a fewer years."
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter premieres with back-to-back episodes connected Wednesday, July 19 at 8 p.m. connected MTV.
