B.C.'s First Baby Of 2009 An Indo-Canadian
ABBOTSFORD – An Indo-Canadian baby boy born three minutes after
midnight at Abbotsford's Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre is B.C.'s
first baby of 2009, reports Fraser Health.
It is a first child for Navdeep Sandhu and her husband Gurmukh Ghag, weighing in at six pounds, five ounces. The baby has yet to be named as the boy's father is still in India, awaiting immigration to Canada.
Navdeep, surrounded by her extended family at the hospital, said that she has reached her husband to tell him the good news that not only is it a boy but also that he is the first baby born in BC in year 2009.
She is now hoping that Immigration Canada gives her husband a visa soon so that he can come and be with his newborn son.
“When they gave him [to me], they said to me, ‘You have a munda,’” the somewhat elated mother told the media gathered to take in the festivities of the event.
It’s good that doctors in heavily populated South Asian hotbeds like Abbotsford and Surrey are learning a little Punjabi as Sandhu’s doctors seem to know by telling her in Punjabi that she has a “Munda” which means a boy, she said. Although her doctor does not speak Punjabi, he used the word munda, which means boy in Sandhu’s first language. The mother was surprised.
Sandhu married the boy’s father Ghag in December 2007 in India and she remained with him until April before returning Abbotsford.
For being the mother of BC’s first child in 2009 – Sandhu will receive a package of gifts, including some clothes as well as a portrait session from the hospital foundation.
05 Jan 2009 by editor
It is a first child for Navdeep Sandhu and her husband Gurmukh Ghag, weighing in at six pounds, five ounces. The baby has yet to be named as the boy's father is still in India, awaiting immigration to Canada.
Navdeep, surrounded by her extended family at the hospital, said that she has reached her husband to tell him the good news that not only is it a boy but also that he is the first baby born in BC in year 2009.
She is now hoping that Immigration Canada gives her husband a visa soon so that he can come and be with his newborn son.
“When they gave him [to me], they said to me, ‘You have a munda,’” the somewhat elated mother told the media gathered to take in the festivities of the event.
It’s good that doctors in heavily populated South Asian hotbeds like Abbotsford and Surrey are learning a little Punjabi as Sandhu’s doctors seem to know by telling her in Punjabi that she has a “Munda” which means a boy, she said. Although her doctor does not speak Punjabi, he used the word munda, which means boy in Sandhu’s first language. The mother was surprised.
Sandhu married the boy’s father Ghag in December 2007 in India and she remained with him until April before returning Abbotsford.
For being the mother of BC’s first child in 2009 – Sandhu will receive a package of gifts, including some clothes as well as a portrait session from the hospital foundation.
05 Jan 2009 by editor
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