EDMONTON -- Edmonton’s first baby born in the new year is a girl.
Madilyn Joanne Lesley Baker was born at 12:36 a.m. at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital, a press release from the hospital stated. She weighed seven pounds, four ounces.
"[She] decided to make her arrival even more special," said mother Bailey Baker. "I wasn't expecting to be the new year's baby. I just wanted the baby out by that point."
Baker says Madilyn was due on Christmas Day.
"The whole Christmas season we were living day-to-day with our plans. We didn't make Christmas dinner. We didn't attend much because we didn't know what day she was going to arrive."
Baker went into labour at 4 a.m. on Dec. 31.
"To be the first one. That was a bit of a shock."
The Grey Nuns welcomes about 6,300 babies into the world every year.
