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P23 A family photo of Chad Headrick’s loving hand over the head of his premature newborn daughter, Claire, shows how small she was in 2010. She weighed one pound nine ounces at birth.
Baby born too soon Parents praise Ronald McDonald House Teresa Mallam arts@pgfreepress.com Claire Headrick, 3, runs from the living room Wednesday and then quickly returns with her sticker book in hand and sits down to watch Curious George on T.V. She is an active and happy child. Parents Chad and Joanne watch her and they smile. Their lives now are a total contrast from when every breath their newborn daughter took was met with relief and every “good day” she had was celebrated. Claire was born May 2, 2010 at Prince George Regional Hospital (now UHNBC).
At just 25 weeks gestation, she had entered the world three-and-a-half months premature – much to the surprise of her young parents. She weighed one pound, nine ounces. “After two hours of painful contractions, I was in full labour,” said Joanne. “I had to have an emergency C-section and the baby had to be flown to Vancouver. I couldn’t go with her because I was in no shape to travel so Chad went. “I only saw her for about five minutes before they took her away and I didn’t see her again until Day 2.” The visit was not as she had expected. “I developed an infection, so they put me
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in a room upstairs and I would visit her by going downstairs in my wheelchair,” said Joanne. “At first I didn’t know what was wrong – or what was right – with her.” The parents waited nervously for news. “We felt a lot of uncertainty at first,” said Joanne. “Especially during that first day when Chad and I were apart and he was alone with the baby, and he didn’t know what to do.” Chad not only had to adjust to being a new father, he also had to come to terms with his wife and daughter’s respective medical emergencies. “It was definitely an eye opener,” he said.
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