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New year, new lives: First 2010 babies arrive
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BANGOR, Maine — Leila Marie Bubar nestled in her father’s arms Friday afternoon at Eastern Maine Medical Center.
But Leila, who was born at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 1, 2010, was not the first baby in Maine to greet the new decade.
Those bragging rights went to Sonya Webb, who was so eager to be a part of the New Year’s festivities that she was born just four minutes after midnight at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington.
Alysha Webb of Wilton gave birth to her second daughter very early Friday, according to Jill Gray, community relations manager for the hospital in western Maine. The baby weighed 9 pounds, 6 ounces. Webb also has a 3-year-old daughter, named Selena Webb, Gray said in a press release issued New Year’s Day.
A phone survey of Maine medical facilities with obstetrics departments revealed that Sonya was the first baby born in the state in 2010.
Baby girls were born at 1:19 a.m. at Maine Medical Center in Portland and at 3:23 a.m. at York Hospital in York, according to spokesmen for those facilities.
In Hancock County, the first New Year’s baby arrived earlier than anticipated. Lilah Belle Kelmenson, the daughter of Jennifer and Peter Kelmenson, of Trenton, was born 22 days before her due date. Lilah Belle came into the world at 1:05 p.m. Friday at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor.
The newest Hancock County resident weighed 7 pounds, 15½ ounces and was 22 inches long. She is the Kelmensons’ second child. Lilah Belle has an older brother, Nate, who is 2½.
Because her due date was Jan. 23, Jennifer Kelmenson said she had not been anticipating a New Year’s baby. But both the new mom and dad were pleasantly surprised.
“We’re thrilled,” Jennifer Kelmenson said Friday. “We’re just beaming with pride.”
A second New Year’s baby was born several hours later at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth. Juliana Marie Reed, the daughter of Kari and Chaz Reed, of Mount Desert, was born at 3:23 p.m. Juliana Marie weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and was 20 inches long.
The Bubar baby was born at 7:30 a.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches long, her mother, Jen Cormier, 24, of Levant, said Friday afternoon.
“She was due on Dec. 27,” Cormier said. “My doctor said if I didn’t have her on New Year’s or over the weekend to come in Monday and they would induce labor. I didn’t want to wait until Monday.”
Apparently neither did her daughter. Cormier said that she went into labor about 10 p.m. Thursday and woke the baby’s father, Chris Bubar, 27, of Levant, at about 3:30 a.m. to tell him it was time to go to the hospital.
Leila Marie was Cormier’s first baby and Bubar’s second child. He has a 5-year-old son, Dylan James Bubar. The couple met about two years ago through mutual friends, Chris Bubar said.
He is employed by S.H. Bridges Construction of Hermon, and Cormier is a licensed pharmacy technician but described herself Friday as “a stay-at-home mom now.”
Cormier’s mother, Shelley Cormier, 55, of Rumford, got a phone call very early Friday morning to let her know that her first grandchild was about to be born.
“I drove over this morning through the snowstorm,” she said Friday in her daughter’s hospital room. “We’ve been very anxious, waiting very impatiently for this baby to be born.”
Chris Bubar’s aunt Carol Grant, 45, of Houlton, also headed for Bangor when she learned Cormier was in labor.
“I’m here representing his mom,” she said Friday afternoon. “She’s just back from Afghanistan and is in Fort Dix, N.J.”
Sgt. Lynne Marie Bubar, 46, of Houlton, is a full-time member of the Maine Army National Guard with the 286th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion. The unit is scheduled to return to Maine on Wednesday.
“I wish she could have been here for this,” Chris Bubar said. “Then it would have been perfect.”
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Congrats, what a cutie! :)
happy birthday!
Congrats to the families.
6:46, irrelevant, Scrooge. 9:34, Scrooge, Grinch. Happy and Joyous New Year to both of you, you need it.
It's so nice to see such joyous news in the BDN . The tradition of announcing the first New Years babies has been going on for many years.
If the 'Scrooges' don't like it why do they read it ? They can get off this site and go stick their noses into something else. They must be the kind that think all news has to be bad news.
Congratulations to the new parents and their beautiful babies. Happy New Year !!
wonder if these stats include homebirths or just hospital births.....
any somalian babes
Nice to see the remaining joyus BDN population on here giving thumbsdowns to comments that actualoly speak the truth, something that appaerntly hurts a few of you...
Hey ryanrobbins and ydnar723 get a life! Everytime a feel good story shows up ANYWHERE I seem to see comments like yours. If you want to live your miserable lives, then so be it. But allow the majority of us to share in the glory of new births and the happiness of families. It's a nice distraction from the negativity of everyday news. ryanrobbins- I noticed a posting at city hall stating that there are seats available on several city committees- maybe that is the place for you to get your questions answered. And ydnar723- try using spellcheck. Or just let me know the definition to AMAMZING. I gladly offer you each a nice warm BDN online THUMBS DOWN! Enjoy, and Happy New Year.
The parents in this story look 15 or 16, I don't think it is a good idea go celebrate another child being brought into this world that will be raised on Mainecare. New years baby or not.
Just wait until every year the new year babies are little Somalians. Then you Mainers who think diversity is so great will rue the day you started moving the violent savages into your state.
and another thing.......the two "parents" should be embarassed to have this in the paper. They aren't married and are just kids themselves. Putting it in the paper is almost like saying, "it's alright to get pregnant as a teenager before marriage. We're proud of you." Well, they should be ashamed of themselves not grinning on the front page of the paper like they've really done something. One more child without the benefit of a set of married parents and probably one more child on the welfare rolls.
Peter and Jennifer Kelmenson I am not talking about you. Congratulations to you two and you should be very proud.
I find it deeply disturbing that the Bangor Daily would delete a comment on the newsworthiness of a story. My earlier comment that a New Year's baby story is a waste of news resources when there are other, more important, stories to be written is just as valid as any other comments here. Whether a story should even be published is always on-topic.
2:30 pm, ryanRRobins when and why did you add that extra R to your username?
Hey Howie,
re: your 12:15pm remarks...
I hardly think that 24 and 27 are "kids themselves"---I think you may need to take a remedial math course. The last time I really thought about it, 24 is WAY beyond a teenager...if this woman "got pregnant as a teenager and didn't give birth until she was 24, then call the Guiness Book of World Records, 'cause that's GOT to be the longest human gestation period of all time!! Just in case you MISSED it in the article because you were seething with disgust that another future payer to your social security welfare was brought into the world, BOTH parents are gainfully employed. Lastly, "marriage" does not make a child any better off than a child whose parents are "married". Howie, you're not "allred", you're just ALL WET.
Hey Howie, it's an innocent baby, why would any parent's be embarassed, of such a beautiful baby? congratulations to the parents.