![]() "She's one of the strongest people I've ever met." "But she pulled together and came to practice a week after Mason was born and she went to nationals. "She kept saying, 'I'm going to nationals,' and we kept saying, 'No you're not.' "We all knew she couldn't go with us," she said. She needed to be there."ĬeeCee Arnold, a senior cheer captain last season, said she and her teammates were in awe of their coach. "There was no doubt in my mind that she was going to muster up the strength and get down there. She made the commitment to the girls knowing she was going to have a baby around that time. "She knew I was here and her mom was here, so she felt comfortable leaving. Mason stayed with her dad, who is a pediatric nurse, and Tara's mother, Terri Cannon, for the week she was in Florida.Įven so, heading to Florida showed incredible dedication. In spite of that ordeal, just 14 days after Mason was born, Tara headed to Daytona Beach, Florida, and coached the Old Dominion University cheerleaders to a sixth-place finish in the national cheering championships late last spring. It would be a week before they finally learned their son would grow up as a normal, healthy child. ![]() During the early part of his stay he was hooked to a ton of tubes. It was three days before Mason cried and five days before he left the hospital. "Looking back, I couldn't even wrap my head around what was going on at the time."Īfter an hour, they were told their son would live. "I was doing my best to try and console her and still focus on what's going on in the corner. "I had nothing to say because I did not know what was going on. "She's looking at me and I'm looking at her," he said. Tara's husband, Dane Hilbert, held his wife's hand while they waited. ![]() "And the doctors and nurses would not tell us what was going on."ĭoctors revived Mason quickly, but they didn't know how long he'd been without oxygen, and he didn't react as you would expect a healthy newborn to react. After holding her son for a few seconds, doctors whisked him away.Ī doctor cut his cord and their son was taken to the corner of the delivery room as they worked to revive and stabilize him. When Mason Andrew Hilbert was born, he wasn't breathing. It turned out to be very different experience than what she'd dreamed of. "I spent nine months envisioning how that moment was going to be," Tara Lynne Cannon said. – She'd been in labor for hours and as with any expectant mother, yearned to hear her son cry, watch her husband cut his umbilical cord and then hold her first child to her chest. ![]()
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