After bringing home their premature baby, who had spent 50 days in the intensive care unit, and leaving him on the doorstep to capture their reaction, the couple left their parents screaming with joy. Gianni Lavalle, the son of Ines and Sandro Lavalle, 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 on July 21, 2018 – he was only 50 days old at the time – and since they stopped reporting his spells to his grandparents, the couple decided to surprise them and their homes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.