On New Year's Day, Olds residents Margaret Erickson, 36, and Yvon Caron, 36, got a sign that they were about to gain another addition to the family.
Just around suppertime that day, as Margaret felt her first contractions, they saw a deer and fawn in their front yard.
Erickson says they took that as a positive sign about the impending birth.
Erickson and Caron got to Olds Hospital and Care Centre at 1:06 a.m. Jan. 2.
"She woke me up around midnight: ‘time to go,'" Caron recalls.
Lucas Yvon Caron-Erickson was born at 1:54 a.m. on Jan. 2, weighing eight pounds, two ounces (3,718 grams).
Lucas is the third child in the family. The other two are Thea Alcock, 9, and Seline Caron-Erickson, 18 months.
"By the time we got here she was eight centimetres dilated. (About) 50 minutes later, the baby popped out; quick, healthy, perfect baby boy," Caron says. "A New Year's Baby on a full moon, a wolf moon at that."
"We were supposed to be induced, but we asked if we could wait and then he just came naturally," Margaret says.
Erickson and Caron both praise the attending physician, Dr. Gert Nel, and thank him for all his help.
"A New Year's Baby on a full moon, a wolf moon at that."
YVON CARON
