Proud parents Nicola Richardson and Darren Rudd’s little one - the first Teesside baby to be born in 2015 - say she hung on as long as she could to make sure she had a birthday to remember.
The tot - who is as yet unnamed - made her entrance into the world at North Tees University Hospital in Stockton at 2.08am today.
Though not due until January 4, mum Nicola, 34, of Stockton, first felt the labour pains early in the morning of New Year’s Eve, at around 4am, but they settled down by around 10am. The pains then returned later in the day and Nicola knew the time had come.
Nicola went to the hospital with partner Darren, 36, a machine operator, at around 11pm and they welcomed their 7lb 8oz daughter into the world just over three hours later.
Nicola, a full-time mum who recently sold her business, Foodies cafe on Albert Road in Middlesbrough, joked: “She obviously waited for the New Year. I think she thought ‘I’ll never get in the Gazette if I’m born on New Year’s Eve’!”
However, the honour of being the first baby born in Teesside this year went to tiny Ashtyn-Jae Williams, of Peterlee, who arrived nine days early at 12.25am, weighing just 5lb 7oz. He was the fourth child for mum Yolanda Williams, 38, who said she was looking forward to going home after being in the hospital since Tuesday. Complications meant she’d had to have the birth induced.
Darren said: “We hoped to get the first New Year baby and didn’t quite manage it, but we got the second, and she’s the first girl.”
The couple, who have three other children between them - Nicola’s two, Charlotte, five, and four-year-old William, and Darren’s daughter Olivia, also four, are yet to settle on a name for the youngster.
Darren said: “I wanted Ava and she wanted Isabelle.”
Nicola added: “Isabelle’s the name of my nana.”
Over at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, baby Reggie was welcomed into the world seven days early by mum Claire Joyce, 31, and husband David, 30, of Grangetown.
Born weighing 6lb 15oz at 3.50am, little Reggie was a welcome surprise for the couple.
Claire, also mum to Jessica, 14, Molly, 11, and seven-year-old Macey, said: “We have three girls, then Reggie. We’ve had the name picked out since the first one, in case we had a boy, then we never did.
“After the third girl, I said no more. Seven years later, Reggie’s come along.”
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