Tailgating relatives welcome new family member
BUTLER TWP — They stared at a window, waiting for a sign.
Any sign.
As the anticipation built, Annie Hegedus covered her mouth and muttered excitedly to herself. Emily Hegedus jumped up and down nervously.
The sisters and newly minted aunts were about to find out if they were going to spoil a boy or a girl. Their elder sister, Megan McGarvey, had given birth just hours earlier and she and her husband, Evan, decided to wait to find out the sex of the baby until it entered the world.
Molly Hegedus, the matriarch of the Hegedus clan, stood nervously next to her husband, Mike.
Brian and Diane McGarvey, the parents of the father, also stood by nervously.
The Chicora families were perched atop the parking garage at Butler Memorial Hospital on a blustery Friday, unable to be inside because of the coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
“There was no way I was going to miss this,” said Emily Hegedus, a junior at Clarion University.
So, the families decided to tailgate on the adjacent parking garage, facing a hallway window on the third floor where the reveal would come.
About three hours after the birth and about eight hours after labor was induced, they saw movement from the window.
“Oh my God!” Annie Hegedus exclaimed. “The suspense!”
Finally, a sign in the window.
“BOY”
Screeches and screams of joy. Tears and hugs.
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