After bringing home their premature baby, who had spent 50 days in the intensive care unit, the couple left him on the doorstep to capture their parents’ reaction.

Gianni Lavalier, the son of Ines and Sandro Lavalier, was born six weeks premature and had difficulty breathing and swallowing. So it was an anxious wait for his grandparents, Sandro’s parents Renato and Bernardina, and Ines’ parents Gianni and Marianna, to bring their new grandson home.

Gianni had bouts of bradycardia during his 50 days in the ICU, and doctors told his family that he needed a week without bouts of bradycardia before he could go home. Ines repeatedly told Gianni that he could fight for three, four, and five days without bradycardia, but then they’d have an attack and have to restart the clock.

Gianni was born on June 1, 2018 and was finally released from the intensive care unit (ICU) on July 21, 2018 – only 50 days old – and since they stopped reporting his spells to his grandparents, the couple decided to surprise them and their respective homes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.