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So for those of you that didn't catch it on facebook or maybe you just want to hear about it again, I'm gonna write about Gage. Our new little boy that is exactly 19 days old today.



Gage Patrick was due to be born on April 29th, but due to a potential heart issue that was discovered at a 34 week ultrasound things changed.


Let me start this story by saying that very few people knew that we were expecting. Sure the people that saw me all the time knew but for my family and most of Daniel's family there were only a couple of people that knew. My biggest kick in life would be to call all of our family from the hospital and tell them that we had had a baby. Without a single word of warning prior. Three of Daniel's brothers knew because they travel way to much and we have always managed to be the middle of the road pit stop and so we get all of the wayward travelers in at our house. So some of them knew just from seeing me. I had also told Simone because I needed one of my sisters to talk to and both Brittney and Kamarie would be way more shocked at the call from the hospital than Simone would be. So I confided in her at about 31 weeks.


When we learned of Gage's potential heart issue in the middle of March we decided that we should inform all of the family so that if he needed surgery after birth that they would all be aware and that we could have that many more prayers on his behalf. The family was shocked enough at this news in March that I was 35 weeks pregnant.


My family doctor that I have had for the last 5 years in Edmonton really wanted me to deliver in Edmonton so that Gage would have the access of a NICU when he arrived. So that was the plan, until we considered that my last child was born in 25 minutes and Wetaskiwin is almost an hour away from the hospital that I was going to deliver in. So it was decided that we should induce a little early. Long story short here.... being the 4th child I knew my body and I didn't want to be induced when my body and baby were not ready to do that. So I pushed off the induction and Gage came on the induction date anyways.

At only 38 weeks and 6 days gestation Gage was born at 5:26 in the morning. He has been my longest labour and delivery at 6 hours. Some people want to hurt me when I tell them that but that's who I am and it's not my fault.

He is a beautiful baby boy and we love him to pieces!!













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