It’s a new year, baby! See the smiles of Alaska’s first 2020 arrivals
Courtesy of Shirley Young with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.
Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage Alissa and Kier Wilson welcomed their newborn baby at 6:43 a.m. Jan. 1. Daxton William Wilson is their first child and he arrived fashionably late, welcoming in the new decade. “He was due on the 30th, so he was two days late,” Alissa said. She said it’s been crazy having a New Year’s baby, but that Daxton “has the easy birthday probably ever to remember.” “His grandpa’s birthday is the 31st, so he’s almost sharing a birthday with his papa,” she said.
Compiled by Kyrie Long and Amanda Bohman
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital When Mary Franzen went to the hospital Oct. 26 due to increasing pain in her pelvis, she expected to be diagnosed with a hernia or with appendicitis. Franzen, who suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome, had made peace with the low probability that she would get pregnant. “We talked about maybe someday doing adoption if we could,” she said, motioning to her fiance, 28-year-old Gary Dixon. Instead, the couple found out they were Amanda Bohman photo expecting a baby and what Franzen initially thought were side effects of polycystic ovary syndrome were actually the signs of being 32 weeks pregnant. At 3:57 a.m. New Year’s Day, Cameron Joaquin Dixon was born. Baby Cameron came into the world after several hours of labor and an eventual cesarean section. “We had to practically beg her to throw in the towel. She just kept pushing and pushing,” said Alice Dang, Dixon’s mother.
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital in Bethel Kayce Riley Lydia Moses came into the world just 10 minutes before baby Cameron in Fairbanks. Kayce weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces and was 19.5 inches in length. The first baby of 2020 for the Bethel hospital, Kayce was born at 3:47 a.m. Jan. 1 to Larissa Evon and Nathaniel Moses
Courtesy of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp.
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