Couple shares story of “miracle” baby’s birth, rare genetic condition & how he’s doing 7 years later
March 30, 2018
4,113
52
5
1.39%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
East Idaho News Episodes Around March 30, 2018
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
5:22Now PlayingCouple shares story of “miracle” baby’s birth, rare genetic condition & how he’s doing 7 years later
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelIDAHO FALLS — Although seven years has passed, for Kaydi and Garrett Jones it’s still hard to talk about.
Kaydi, age 24 at the time, was 20 weeks pregnant with their first child and the young couple was excited for their ultrasound appointment. Her pregnancy had been relatively normal and they were about to find out if they were having a boy or girl.
“We got to see him alive and kicking just like any other baby,” Kaydi recalls. “We were excited to find out he was a boy and then afterwards, we met with the doctor and that’s when we first heard about congenital diaphragmatic hernia.”
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia – scary words and a condition the Jones had never heard of it.
But they soon learned one in every 2,000 infants has CDH, according to Columbia University Medical Center. It occurs when the diaphragm does not form properly and organs that should be in the stomach are pushed up into the chest.
“The diagnosis was really bad,” Garrett tells EastIdahoNews.com. “The doctor basically said he has a very small chance to survive the birth and he talked about options of aborting pregnancy because quality of life might not be great.”
Kaydi remembers the chances of their child surviving were around ten percent, “but there was no way that we would give up on our baby.”
Kaydi and Garrett didn’t know what to expect but they did know they were going to fight for baby Gibson.
They were optimistic their child would be ok as long as he was inside Kaydi’s womb but the second he was born, anything could happen.
“I researched how much it would be to have a funeral just so I was prepared,” Kaydi says. “I felt like I needed to prepare for both sides of it.”
A month before the baby’s due date, the Jones moved from Pocatello to Salt Lake City so the child could be delivered at the University of Utah.
On March 30, 2011, Kaydi was induced and 23 hours later, at 6:30 p.m., baby Gibson Wheelock Jones entered the world surrounded by a team of surgeons.
Click here for the rest of the story
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.