First Mother’s Day baby honoured
Mother’s Day saw thousands of Belizean women being wined, dined and otherwise appreciated by their loved ones. But today, Ann-Marie spoke to one young mother at the K.H.M.H. who had a special reason to celebrate.
Ann-Marie Williams
Mother’s Day is usually a time when children honour their mother, but the tables turned on Sunday for twenty-three year old Avelita Verda, she was honoured as the fortunate mom who gave birth to the first baby born on Mother’s Day.
For Verda, who now has two children, when her bundle of joy came on Mother’s Day it was a pleasant surprise.
Avelita Verda
“Because she mi done overdue, that’s why I come the day before, and they tell me that that no time, she could born two weeks before or two weeks after, but it mi done pass one week and one day, so I come.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“You started to worry a bit?”
Avelita Verda
“Yes.”
Although her new born baby girl has not yet been named, she weighed in at eight pounds, four ounces after more than an hour and a half in labour.
Avelita Verda
“It neva so rough and it no slide out neither, it mi kinda hard.”
Verda was presented with a layette set courtesy of the Belize Lion’s Club, along with a case of Confort diapers from the Santiago Castillo Group of Companies. Ann-Marie Williams for News 5.
The baby was delivered by Nurse Ambrosine Harris with assistance from fellow nurse Carmita Garbutt.
