Grey Bruce’s first baby of 2021, Maisyn Olivia Bosch will have two unique stories to tell one day about how she was born.
Not only is Maisyn (pronounced like Mason) a New Year’s baby, but one who was born unexpectedly at her Tiverton home before her parents could make it to the hospital.
Parents Kyla Johnston and Kyle Bosch were expecting to visit the hospital on New Year’s Day because Johnston was 11 days overdue and the plan was to induce labour.
“I was feeling pretty good throughout the day,” says Johnston who notes just before midnight she started to feel something and within an hour or so, started to go into labour which progressed very quickly. The couple put in a call to the hospital’s birth unit and were told to go there, so they gathered their bags.
Johnston says, “Before we were about to leave, I said I couldn’t, and we needed to call 911 because I could just feel immense pressure.”
Johnston says a dispatcher walked the couple through everything, “The dispatcher was very well prepared and stayed calm and made sure we were calm. Hats off to them,” says Johnston who notes if it hadn’t been for the calm steady voice on the line, things would have been a lot more stressful.
She says Bosch, who delivered his daughter was “Really good with it, stayed calm, just walked me through everything and listened to what the dispatch team had to say and just followed their directions until paramedics got here.”
Maisyn was born at 2:27 a.m. on New Year’s Day and Bruce County Paramedics arrived just after to cut the umbilical cord.
“It definitely was not in the plans, but it couldn’t have went any smoother,” says Johnston, adding “We’re pretty thankful that there were no issues and no complications and she’s thriving and very healthy.”
At 8 lb, 1 oz and 21 inches long, Maisyn is the family’s second child. She has a three year old brother Wyatt Bosch.