First baby of New Year announced
According to the Ministry of Health twenty-four year old Marie Lou Smith gave birth to the first baby of 1999 at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Smith told us more about the birth and her new bundle of joy.
Marie Lou Smith, Mother
“I went into labor about quarter to nine and I had her about seven forty-one January first.”
Q: “How do you feel knowing you had the first baby for 1999?”
Marie Lou Smith
“It feels good that I had her the first of January.”
Q: “What plans do you have for her for the future?”
Marie Lou Smith
“To bring her up in the right way and make sure everything is o.k. with her.”
Smith says she received a gift package courtesy of the Belize Lion’s Club. She says that so far she has not decided on a name for her baby girl who weighed six pounds fourteen ounces at birth.
