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."