A woman with terminal cancer had the chance to meet her son on on Christmas, after doctors performed a C-section earlier that morning.
"She got to hold him, and see him," the young woman's aunt Rose Horan-Pachota told CTV News. "And we're so happy."
Doctors had been unsure if Breanne Smaaslet, 22, would live to meet her child.
The B.C. woman was diagnosed with osteosarcoma when she was 18 and the disease had spread.
But just after midnight on Christmas, doctors performed an early C-section, bringing Baby Sal, or Salvatore into the world.
The newborn is just 1.9 pounds. When he was born, he was crying and breathing on his own.
Smaaslet was more than 26 weeks pregnant when doctors performed the operation.
In an interview before her child's birth, Smaaslet told CTV Vancouver that she'd "always wanted to be a mom."
Salvatore's father, Adam Smaaslet, passed away earlier this year.
The mother and baby's family has set up an online fundraising page, which had raised more than $10,000 as of last Sunday morning.
With files from CTV Vancouver
