{"id":83365,"date":"2017-01-12T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=83365"},"modified":"2017-01-12T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:30:47","slug":"new-years-baby-finally-born-at-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/01\/12\/new-years-baby-finally-born-at-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Baby finally born at hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Although it took more than a week, Van Wert County Hospital now has its New Year\u2019s Baby for 2017.<\/p>\n

Kanin May came into the world at 2:46 p.m. Monday, January 9, to be the first baby born in the new year at the hospital. Kanin weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, which was pretty close to his parents\u2019 other two children, now ages 3 and 5.<\/p>\n

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Jalyn Egnor and Chaise May with their baby boy, Kanin May, the first baby born at Van Wert County Hospital in 2017.<\/strong> Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parents are Chaise May and Jalyn Egnor, and Egnor said she was a little surprised that her baby was the first of the new year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited,\u201d she said, noting that she was originally scheduled for a Caesarian section on January 16, but doctors decided to move that procedure up to January 9. \u201cI definitely wasn\u2019t expecting it to be the New Year\u2019s Baby on the 9th, but we\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We were all surprised that we didn’t have a New Year’s Baby until January 9 this year,\u201d said Ellen Rager, patient and community coordinator at the hospital.\u00a0\u201cWe’re thrilled for the Egnor family and are proud to have such a wonderful family to receive the recognition of birthing the first baby at Van Wert County Hospital. What a great way for this family to start the New Year!”<\/p>\n

Rager noted it was unusual for a New Year\u2019s Baby to be born so late, but said the hospital had a lull after what was a pretty busy year for births in 2016, with 15 more births recorded overall than the year before. \u201cI\u2019m sure there\u2019s going to be a mass of babies being born in the last half of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rager added that, a couple of years ago, the New Year\u2019s Baby was born at 12:05 a.m. on January 1, noting that it\u2019s hard to determine exactly when the first baby of each year will be born.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t predict these things,\u201d Rager said. \u201cIt was just the way it went, and we are so excited for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hospital always provides a number of donated items to the family of the first baby born each year. In addition to Ghirardelli chocolates, this year\u2019s \u201cfirst family\u201d will receive a $25 gift card to both Subway and Pizza Hut, and a $30 gift certificate to Brewed Expressions Caf\u00e9. Egnor will also receive a teething necklace that is safe for her baby to chew on, while the family also received a $50 gift card to Walmart to buy needed items for the new baby.<\/p>\n

The New Year\u2019s Baby will also receive a fuzzy winter hat, toys, books, rattles, and a giraffe blanket, while also being lulled to sleep by a stuffed elephant that plays music.<\/p>\n

The family will also receive a car seat canopy (to keep the baby warm during the winter), a bath grooming kit, a bath spout cover, two large boxes of diapers, wipes, and a stroller organizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Although it took more than a week, Van Wert County Hospital now has its New Year\u2019s Baby for 2017. Kanin May came into the world at 2:46 p.m. Monday, January 9, to be the first baby born in the new year at the hospital. Kanin weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, which was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 22:42:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}