MONTREAL A team of Montreal Children s Hospital doctors is using an old technique for bone stretching in a new way to give newborns with a severe birth defect a shot at a normal life. When Ellie Mavie Duguay was born at the end of April, she couldn t breathe. I just heard the panic coming from the doctors from outside the operating room, said her father Daniel Duguay. He later found out Ellie had a severe birth defect called Robin Sequence where an underdeveloped jaw bone causes infants to choke on their tongues. He called the ordeal heartbreaking and terrifying.
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The baby was about 18 months old and in the arms of his mother. He was afraid of hospital staff, who all look the same in their masks and goggles. Pascale Comeau stood at the door to the hospital room and selected wind chimes from his music cart. The sound resonated with the child and Comeau eased his way into the room, getting closer and closer. Eventually he gave the wind chimes to the child’s mother. Within 20 minutes, the three were making.