We’ve all been scared before and we’ve all been happy before, but this was a different animal to experience that. “But that fear changed to excitement and joy as soon as you realize that everything is OK. That’s real fear, not knowing if everything is OK or not. “(Until) you could hear (the baby) scream, that’s true fear. “It was a really scary feeling until she finally came out,” Karlsson said. It then took a few moments for the Karlssons to hear the baby scream, signifying that it was healthy. “If the kid had to come out, my wife would have told them to get her out and risk herself, which was not, you know, ideal,” he said. There was even a discussion between husband and wife that if the baby needed to come out before the 12-hour limit, Melinda would be willing to, as Karlsson put it, “go under.” When you’re hooked up to monitors and you hear all the beeps and everything, it was not very pleasant.” She had to wait a full 12 hours after finding out the baby needed to be delivered before the doctors could operate to reduce “the risk of her bleeding out,” Karlsson said. But yeah, it’s a scary feeling.”Īdding to that uneasiness was that Melinda has what Erik calls a “rare disease,” requiring her to take blood thinners throughout the pregnancy. “But you know, (the doctors) did a good job in letting us know that (Melinda) was doing OK and we just needed a few hours to prepare everything and make sure that everything went accordingly. “It was stressful, especially since she wasn’t supposed to come at that time and everything,” Karlsson said. Now, Melinda was set to deliver early again, this time at 35 weeks - five weeks before what would have been a standard-term pregnancy. On March 21, 2018, the Karlssons lost their son, Axel, who was stillborn about a month before his due date. Karlsson rushed to the Las Vegas airport just a couple hours before puck drop, and after landing in San Jose raced to see his wife at Stanford Hospital, enduring what had to be one of the most emotional days of his life considering what the couple had endured just a year and a half earlier. I was going about business as usual, and obviously just had to figure out a way to get home as quickly as I could.” “They said we’re going to have to (deliver the baby). “We talked that afternoon and everything was fine, and then a couple hours before the game she just called and said, ‘I think you probably have to get home,’” Karlsson recalled on Friday. It's definitely a sad day.He had to get on a plane back to the Bay Area. We feel for them and Erik is going to take the time he needs to come back and once he does we'll do our best to support him. It's been a tough year but this is a real personal, devastating blow to them. "We definitely feel for Erik and his wife and his family. "Everybody is heartbroken, it's awful," head coach Guy Boucher said, according to CBC News. "We ask that you respect the family's wishes for privacy during the grieving process." "The collective thoughts and prayers of the Ottawa Senators organization, the city of Ottawa and entire hockey community rest with Erik and Melinda Karlsson following the loss of their son," the Ottawa Senators said in a statement posted online on Tuesday, after Erik, 27, sat out Tuesday's game against the Florida Panthers. The NHL star had previously said the baby was due in mid-April, around the start of the NHL playoffs, CBC News reported. Ottawa Senators team captain Erik Karlsson and wife Melinda Karlsson are mourning the loss of their unborn son, their first child, weeks before she was set to give birth.
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