Weighing six pounds, 14 ounces, she was four years in the planning.

“It’s kind of wild,” her dad, Travis, said. “It’s our first child and we actually went to Prague to do (in vitro fertilization) to make her, so it’s been a long journey.”

IVF isn’t cheap, but it’s not as costly in Prague, so Stutsky and wife, Julia Goryn, saved up, “and we made a vacation out of it, too.”

The couple — he’s 31, she’s 35 — wanted a name that began with T, thus Taylor. She has no middle name, yet.

“Four years of trying, it was a long time,” Stutsky said.

Goryn had been pregnant before, but it was an ectopic pregnancy — the fertilized egg implanted itself in one of her Fallopian tubes instead of in the womb.

The couple, who live in Maple Ridge, had a choice between hospital in Burnaby and New Westminster. They chose Royal Columbian in New West because Goryn, a registered nurse, had worked at there while in nursing school and liked the hospital and staff a lot.

“There was such relief for Julia and me, I don’t think I took my eyes off her the whole time,” Stutsky said as Taylor made herself heard in the background as Goryn fed her. “Just seeing the smile on Julia’s face when the baby came out was just amazing for me.”

Taylor’s due date wasn’t until Jan. 28, but Goryn had developed cholestasis, a liver problem that sometimes develops during pregnancy, so labour was induced on New Year’s Eve.

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