BDO b@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-01-02 published
New Year's baby slow coming, but six days ahead of schedule
By Randy RICHMOND, Free Press Reporter, Mon., January 2, 2006
The London area's New Year's baby has a better sense of timing
than doctors, nurses and her own parents.
Jaime Leigh
HOOPER was born at four minutes after midnight New
Year's Day in London, three full days after her mom was admitted
to hospital and 18 hours after labour was induced.
And six days early.
"It wasn't planned," proud dad Steve
HOOPER said yesterday, holding
the seven-pound, 12-ounce and 22.5-inch long newest citizen of
Komoka.
"Nobody knew it would be that close."
Jaime was due January 6.
But mom Laura was admitted to Victoria Hospital Thursday because
of high blood pressure.
Medical staff decided to induce labour.
"They were going to induce Thursday night or Friday night, but
it was so busy it kept getting put back," said Laura, 33, an
office administrator with
BDO
Dunwoody▼ in London.
Instead, Laura was induced at 4: 30 a.m. on Saturday.
That should have been enough time to have a baby long before
the New Year rang in when the clock turned to Sunday.
"We were hoping to be done by the middle of Saturday afternoon,"
said Steve, 34, a technician with Reliance Home Comfort.
As the day wore on and night approached, Steve began to wonder
about his child becoming the New Year's baby.
Laura did not.
"I was too busy," she said with a laugh.
"She didn't care what time it was," Steve recalled. "She just
wanted the baby out."
As the parents of London's New Year's baby, the couple received
some gifts from London Health Sciences Centre and a lot of media
attention.
"You are the most special girl this time of the year. Yes you
are," Steve said to a sleeping Jaime, the couple's first child,
yesterday.
But the big crowds were still to come.
With five sisters, one step-sister and one step-brother, Laura
was expecting a busy first day of the year.
In the midst of yesterday's attention, all three
HOOPERs looked
remarkably calm.
"See me in a couple of days when I'm home," Laura quipped.
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BDO b@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-06-17 published
TAGIEFF,
Samuel
Walker -- Hatch:
By Suzanne
MA,
Page M5
When Lisa WALKER, 40, and Bradley
TAGIEFF, 36, learned they were
going to have a baby last summer, the couple decided to elope
to New York at Christmas. They visited the Museum of Modern Art
and bought a Japanese-style drawing of an owl. It now hangs in
baby Samuel Walker
TAGIEFF's bedroom, which is decorated to look
like a woodland forest.
"We have a cottage up north that we really love, and we think
Samuel was conceived while we were at the cottage, so it was
appropriate," says Ms.
WALKER, the art director for 2: The Magazine
for Couples.
Ms. WALKER and Mr.
TAGIEFF, a chartered accountant who has just
been hired at
BDO
Dunwoody,▲ hope that Samuel, who was 6 pounds,
9 ounces when he was born on May 5 at Women's College Hospital,
will some day be an accountant, like his father and grandfather.
For now, Samuel is learning how to smile and flex his vocal cords
with "cooing baby sounds."
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