PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula’s first-born child in 2015 is Caprese Ray House, born just 2 minutes past midnight Thursday at Olympic Medical Center.
The child weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 19 inches long.
The parents are Holly House, 34, and her husband, Mike House, 43, of Port Angeles. Caprese joins her older sister, Jersey, 4.
“That’s real exciting!” Holly House exclaimed when told she’d delivered the first brand-new person in Clallam County.
No births were imminent Thursday at Forks Community Hospital or at Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend, nursing supervisors said.
So Caprese is the first baby of the year on the Peninsula.
Holly House was awaiting delivery by Caesarean section at 9 a.m. today, “but then last night Caprese decided it was time to meet the world,” her father said.
“It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it,” Caprese’s mother said from her room at OMC’s Birth Center.
Holly House said she is a stay-at-home mom.
Mike House is a superintendent at the Interfor Pacific Mill west of Port Angeles.
We are just so grateful for this healthy, happy baby,” Holly House said, “and we just praise God for both our children.”
The first baby of 2014 was born at Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend.
Leland Neil Lammers arrived at 10:12 a.m. Jan. 1, 2014, born to 19 to Dana Cordova, 31, and Shawn Lammers, 33, both of Port Townsend.
Shawn Lammers was the first Jefferson County baby born for the decade at Jefferson Healthcare, which then was called Jefferson General Hospital, Cordova said.
The first Clallam County baby of 2014 was born at 2:30 p.m. on the first day of the year. Ember Francis-Marie Hanshaw was born to Jennifer and Tim Hanshaw, Sequim natives who live in Port Angeles.
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