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RANDOLPH, Jan. 2, 2008 – Gifford Medical Center welcomed the state’s first baby of 2008. Six-pound, 13-ounce Leland Mason Clyde Estabrook was born at 2:06 a.m. on Tuesday to Channia and Westley Estabrook of East Randolph.
Leland was an unlikely New Year’s baby.
“We were not expecting to have the first baby of the
year at all,” Westley Estabrook said Wednesday.
The baby boy – the family’s second – was born 26 days early. Channia Estabrook wasn’t due to give birth until
Jan. 27, but when husband Westley returned home for
his dinner break on New Year’s Eve, he found his wife in labor. Westley works a 3-11:30 p.m. shift in Gifford’s Environmental Services Department.
“She said, ‘I’ve got to go the hospital. I’m having really Leland Estabrook
strong contractions,’” Westley Estabrook recalled.
The family arrived at the Randolph hospital’s Birthing Center a half-hour later at about 8 p.m. Leland was breech and delivered by cesarean section just after 2 a.m.
The family is now at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H., where Channia Estabrook is recovering from her surgery and Leland is receiving oxygen. He is having respiratory problems, but is expected to recover. “He’s doing all right,” Westley Estabrook said from the New Hampshire hospital.
Leland will remain at Dartmouth until at least Sunday, when the family hopes to bring their Vermont New Year’s baby home.