A new year full of new babies
Date: 2008-01-04By Lindsey Cole
The stork's wings were weary and weighted down as it brought six new babies to the Peterborough Regional Health
Centre on New Year's Day.
The first came at 12:58 a.m. weighing seven pounds 14 ounces.
He was two weeks early, but Kai Hamilton Thomas wanted to make his appearance special, as the first baby born in
Peterborough for 2008.
His father Ian Thomas was thrilled to see the little guy happy and healthy.
“It was exciting. It was not really planned,” he said with a chuckle.
Mom, Brook Jackson-Thomas, and baby are healthy and recovering at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre.
However, hours later a baby girl came in as the second born at the hospital in the new year.
Lillian Elizabeth Lambe was born at 11:13 a.m., five days early, her mother Martha Anderson says.
She weighed six pounds one ounce when she was born, after a lengthy labour beginning at 10 p.m. New Year's Eve.
“It was a long one,” Ms Anderson says with a laugh, adding it was a pleasant surprise.
Ms Anderson and her husband Damon Lambe were thrilled to have a New Year's baby, especially since this is their first child.
“I never imagined that being a mom would be so fulfilling,” she says.
“They just plopped her right on my stomach.”
The Apsley couple had their suspicions Lillian may come early, but had no idea it would be on New Year's Day.
Grandma Penny Anderson was also at the hospital to see her first grandchild.
“It's wonderful. It's really wonderful. You're not just a parent anymore,” she says.
“And there was no pain.”
Four other babies made their way into the world at the PRHC, making the hospital one busy place Jan. 1.
However, there was another birth that happened in a much different setting.
At 12:25 p.m. Abbigail Lajoie was born in the bathtub of her Omemee home to the proud parents of Lauren Bonisteel and Mark Lajoie. Ms Bonisteel chose to have her baby at home with the help of a Kawartha Community Midwife.
Abbigail weighed a healthy nine pounds and is the younger sister to Melody.
This brings the total to seven babies in the Peterborough area and makes for one tired stork.