Dear Shabna,
The reason that there are 2 incisions for the pacemaker placement is that your child is an infant, which means that the
pacemaker is an epicardial
pacemaker system. This means that the
pacemaker leads have to be attached to the outside of the heart, and this is separate from the placement of the pacemaker generator in the abdomen. Your father, as an adult with large blood vessels, has a transvenous pacemaker system.