It’s a boy for Fort Erie’s first baby of the year
Brianna Jamieson and Tylor Finn had quite the New Year’s surprise for their families.
The Fort Erie couple kept Jamieson’s pregnancy a secret until almost the last possible moment.
“I got the call on Saturday,” her mother Dennaleigh Jamieson said Tuesday as her grandson Tyson Finn slept nearby.
Tyson, the first Fort Erie baby of 2018, arrived at 1:49 p.m. Monday.
He tipped the scales at eight pounds, 9.8 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Brianna, 20, began having back spasms on Friday and little Tyson was born Monday afternoon after a short and trouble-free labour.
“It went really fast,” said Finn, 21.
“Eight pushes and he was out,” Dennaleigh added.
“If he’s anything like Brianna, he’ll be a great little baby.”
Brianna says she expects to be released from the Women’s and Babies Unit at the St. Catharines hospital Wednesday and her first order of business will be to prepare the nursery for baby Tyson.
“We are all very happy,” she said.
While Tyson was the first baby for Fort Erie, he wasn’t the only baby to be born at St. Catharines hospital on New Year’s Day.
Kinsley Aria was Niagara’s first baby of 2018. Parents Kennedy Wilson and Bryan Gent from St. Catharines welcomed the seven-pound, sixounce girl at 12:51 a.m. Monday.
Port Colborne couple Chelsea MacDonald and Adam White welcomed Rae-Ann Marie White into their family of four at 8:23 a.m.
Last year nearly 3,000 babies were delivered at St. Catharines hospital.