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Clear Lake’s first 2009 baby gives family a girl quartet
  
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By MARY ANN HELLINGHAUSEN
The first baby born in a Clear Lake-area hospital in 2009 will have three big sisters vying for her attention when she gets to her Pearland home.
Little Roxanne Harris was born at 2:19 a.m. New Year’s Day at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster, barely three hours after mom Mandy Harris went into labor on New Year’s Eve.
Dad Chad Harris obviously has been through this before. “If you don’t get to the hospital now, you won’t get an epidural,’’ he warned his wife late New Year’s Eve. Asked whether he was hoping for a birth before midnight to get a 2008 tax deduction, Harris said, “My CPA advised me to let things happen naturally.’’
Roxanne, who weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 19 ½ inches long, is the fourth girl for the Harris family. She joins Brittany, 7, Jordynne, 5, and Daisy, 2. The family received two baskets of baby goodies from Babies R Us and the nursing staff at Clear Lake Regional and a car seat donated by the Webster Police Department.
At Christus St. John Hospital in Nassau Bay, little Kameron Letroise was the first baby to ring in the new year at 12:05 p.m. He weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 18 ½ inches long. Born to LaToya and Nathan Letroise of Texas City, chances are good that Kameron will be spoiled by his big sister, Nykeyia, age 7.
Letroise said that after being pregnant for 39 weeks, she was anxious for her son to come. On New Year’s Eve, “I walked four miles and went home and cleaned,’’ she said, adding that while cleaning, she went into labor. “I was ready for him to be born.’’
Letroise was part of the recent layoffs at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, but she said she had planned to stay home once the baby was born anyway. Her husband works for the U.S. Postal Service in Galveston.
The first baby of the New Year at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston was Genesis Daniela Rodriguez. She is also the first baby born in Galveston County this year.
The daughter of Lilian Rodriguez and Manuel Bonilla of Houston, Genesis, was born at 1:28 a.m., Jan. 1, weighing in at five pounds, 14 ounces.
Little Roxanne Harris was born at 2:19 a.m. New Year’s Day at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster, barely three hours after mom Mandy Harris went into labor on New Year’s Eve.
Dad Chad Harris obviously has been through this before. “If you don’t get to the hospital now, you won’t get an epidural,’’ he warned his wife late New Year’s Eve. Asked whether he was hoping for a birth before midnight to get a 2008 tax deduction, Harris said, “My CPA advised me to let things happen naturally.’’
Roxanne, who weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 19 ½ inches long, is the fourth girl for the Harris family. She joins Brittany, 7, Jordynne, 5, and Daisy, 2. The family received two baskets of baby goodies from Babies R Us and the nursing staff at Clear Lake Regional and a car seat donated by the Webster Police Department.
At Christus St. John Hospital in Nassau Bay, little Kameron Letroise was the first baby to ring in the new year at 12:05 p.m. He weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 18 ½ inches long. Born to LaToya and Nathan Letroise of Texas City, chances are good that Kameron will be spoiled by his big sister, Nykeyia, age 7.
Letroise said that after being pregnant for 39 weeks, she was anxious for her son to come. On New Year’s Eve, “I walked four miles and went home and cleaned,’’ she said, adding that while cleaning, she went into labor. “I was ready for him to be born.’’
Letroise was part of the recent layoffs at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, but she said she had planned to stay home once the baby was born anyway. Her husband works for the U.S. Postal Service in Galveston.
The first baby of the New Year at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston was Genesis Daniela Rodriguez. She is also the first baby born in Galveston County this year.
The daughter of Lilian Rodriguez and Manuel Bonilla of Houston, Genesis, was born at 1:28 a.m., Jan. 1, weighing in at five pounds, 14 ounces.
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