Northumberland Hills Hospital announces the first baby of the new year – born at home at 7 p.m. New Year's Day and taken immediately to NHH for care.
Silas Theodore Cook – weighing five lb. and 4.6 oz. - is a first child for Seana Boers and Jeff Cook of Port Hope.
The new parents had planned to deliver at Peterborough Regional Health Centre, where their midwife – Caitlin Murray of Kawartha Midwives – has privileges. Little Silas had plans of his own, and he arrived at home in Port Hope.
“Our midwife was concerned about a potential complication immediately following delivery,” the mother said from her bed at NHH.
“With support from Northumberland Paramedics, we were quickly taken to the closest hospital, NHH, where the delivery was completed with the help of Dr. Hameed and the team in the NHH Emergency and Maternal/Child Care departments.”
Boers expressed her gratitude to everyone who supported them.
“Our midwife, Caitlin Murray, Dr. Asiya Hameed, the NHH Obstetrician-Gynecologist, the paramedics and the nurses here at NHH – everyone has been wonderful,” she listed. “We’d also like to send a special thanks to Dr. Emma Smith and Respiratory Therapist Ashley Paluch for their help with our son’s care.
“Despite the unexpected ambulance ride, it’s been a great experience, from birth to our first night here at NHH, and today.”
As is the tradition, Boers and Cook will go home with a gift from the family of the first baby born last year – a lovely gift basket prepared and delivered in mid-December.
The press release noted that, throughout the last fiscal year, the NHH Maternal/Child Care team welcomed 583 births, thanks to a strong partnership with local obstetrician-gynecologists, family physicians, anesthesiologists, and several local midwifery groups.
Designed with the unique needs of newborns, their mothers and family members in mind, NHH's Maternal Child Care unit is equipped with six labour and delivery beds (each in their own private suite), a Caesarean-section operating room, advanced fetal and patient monitoring and a comfortable family lounge.
If you have a baby due in 2021, NHH reminds you that it partners with the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit to help parents-to-be prepare for the big arrival. For more information, call 905-372-6811 ext. 4122.
