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Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive back Ed Gainey knows he can’t be in two places at once.

That didn’t make a recent decision any easier for him.

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Gainey’s girlfriend, Lashawndriea Cole, is set to deliver their first child — a boy they’re going to name Grayson Jagger Gainey. Cole was to be induced Monday, so Ed Gainey returned to his hometown of Winston-Salem, N.C., on Sunday for his son’s birth.

But doctors decided not to induce Cole and she didn’t go into labour, leaving Gainey with a dilemma: Stay with her or return to Regina to prepare for Saturday’s CFL game against the visiting Montreal Alouettes.

He chose the latter.

“It’s very frustrating,” Gainey, who arrived in Regina on Wednesday morning, said after practice at Mosaic Stadium. “I really want to be there. I’m just trying to take it for what it is.

“(The baby) is just being stubborn right now. She said she got an ultrasound and he’s in there sucking his thumb. He’s pretty comfortable in there.”