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Adam Bighill walked off the field after practice Tuesday with his wife Kristina, son A.J. (Adam, Jr.), daughter Leah and newborn baby Beau all at his side.

Kristina carried little Beau, born at eight pounds, 14 ounces last Thursday, in a Snuggly, while the other two toddlers ran happily between their smiling mom and dad on the turf at IG Field.

“He’s as healthy as can be and from our eyes he’s as perfect as he can be,” Bighill, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ star middle linebacker, said of his newest son.

About 20 weeks into Kristina’s pregnancy, the Bighills got the news that the baby would be born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate.

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It’s the very same condition Adam was born with and has spent a lifetime working to overcome. The couple knew genetics made this a possibility but it was still not easy news to hear.

Beau’s future holds multiple surgeries, speech therapy and feeding issues, among other things.