Kelsey Fiddler says every time she looks at her smiling baby's face she feels stronger. It's a gift, she says, from the Humboldt Broncos defenceman she named her daughter after.
Fiddler, who is from the Red Earth Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, was pregnant and travelling with her two sons on the clear afternoon last April when a semi-trailer shot into the path of a bus carrying the junior hockey team.
"It feels like it was just yesterday. Sometimes I just don't want to remember it because remembering the day, I literally start crying," she said in an interview from Nipawin, Sask.Fiddler says she tried to stay calm as first responders arrived at the crash site, but suddenly she was having contractions. She didn't want to distract from rescue efforts or take up an ambulance, so she drove herself to the hospital in Nipawin.
In the weeks that followed, as the baby kicked inside her, Fiddler often thought about the 16 people killed and 13 who were injured.
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