Miracle baby arrives (Updated with photographs)

She doesn’t know it yet, but North Bay’s first baby of the year has also become a “miracle child” to her parents.

Genevieve Anne Fleming Dunn was born this morning at 4:30 at the North Bay General Hospital, weighing in at five and a half pounds.

Her mom and dad Andrew Dunn and Micheline Fleming Dunn are “absolutely thrilled,” they told BayToday.ca.

“She’s been seven or eight years in the making, that’s how long we’ve tried to have a baby, and it seemed too good to be true when we found out Micheline was pregnant,” Andrew said.

“So not only is Genevieve North Bay’s first baby of the year, she’s our miracle child.”

And a miracle granddaugher for Marg and Bruce Fleming, and Joan and Cliff Dunn, all of North Bay.

Started having contractions
A Caesarean section had been planned because Genevieve was in a breach birth position.

The operation was planned for Jan. 5, Dunn said, but Micheline started having contractions Thursday night.

“We went to the hospital but were told it was start of something but not quite soon enough, so we went home,” Dunn said.

Micheline’s water broke early Saturday morning and the couple returned to the hospital, where the C-section was done.

Within a few moments Andrew was holding his new baby girl.

“It was an absolutely overwhelming experience,” he said, “and then we found out she was the first birth of the year in North Bay. We thought for sure one would have been born by Jan. 3.”

Same name
Andrew, 37, teaches computer sciences at St. Joseph-Scollard Hall, and Micheline, 35, works for North Bay Hydro as a customer account rep at North Bay Hydro.
And Genevieve? Well right now she’s doing a lot of yawning, and thinking and sleeping.

The couple say the chose the moniker Genevieve in honour of Genevieve Dennis, a close friend with the same name.

“Her husband Steve grew up in the house we live in now, and we also thought Genevieve is such a beautiful name, and that’s why we chose it,” Fleming Dunn said.

Dennis said she was "honoured" by the gesture.

"I'm so thrilled for them because it's an amazing story," Dennis said from her Toronto home.

"That baby is going to be loved so much because she is a miracle."

Baby Genevieve's middle name is also the middle name of both grandmothers, Dunn added.

"We've got all the bases covered."

Very blessed
Cliff Dunn said he's been unable to visit Genevieve because he has a touch of the flu.

"I'm very excited because this has been a long time in coming," Dunn said.

"She's our seventh grandchild and a very special one."

Joan Dunn said she's feeling "very blessed."

And Marg Fleming said Genevieve will be living "in a house full of love."

Now that Genevieve has arrived, an order has been put in for a brother or a sister.

“We’d love to have another,” Fleming Dunn said.
"We really would."

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