No babies were born on New Years Day at Northumberland Hills Hospital in Cobourg, Ontario; rather, the first arrival occurred on the second day of 2022.
The hospital reports that around 5 p.m. on Sunday, January 2, Reena Lisa Bamsey was born. She is the first child from Newtownville, Ontario, the partner of Julia Doorenspleet and Michael Bamsey.
Reena weighed 7 pounds, 1.8 ounces at birth, the hospital said.
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The Cobourg hospital says that, as is tradition, Reena will go home with a gift from the family of the first baby born last year: a gift basket prepared and delivered in December.
The family thanked New Life Midwives midwives Taryn Woolsey and Julie Merkler and the entire nursing team in the hospital’s Maternal and Child Care Unit.
The hospital says the six-bed labor and delivery unit welcomed nearly 600 births in the last fiscal year.
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