Just one minute after midnight on Jan. 1, Airdrie residents Becky Hamilton and Hossein Shasapay welcomed Airdrie’s 2015 New Year’s baby into the world at the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary.
Nima Shasapay, who Hamilton said was born just five seconds after Calgary’s New Year’s baby, came into the world as a happy and healthy nine-pound bundle of joy.
“He’s very healthy. He’s a good baby,” Hamilton said. “Everybody’s excited he’s here.”
Nima’s due date was not until Jan. 7 but Hamilton said they were told he would likely come in mid-December.
“They told me we’d have him early,” she said. “But he had plans of his own. I guess he didn’t want to be a 2014 baby.”
Hamilton said she was celebrating an early New Year’s Eve at her parents home outside of Chestermere when she started feeling labour pains.
“We watched an early New Year’s countdown, which was over at 10, at my parents house. They said I’d better get home if I was feeling him coming. I got to the hospital around 11:30 and he was born at 12:01,” she said.
Hamilton said she wasn’t surprised when she went into labour but didn’t really expect to have the New Year’s baby.
“We had joked about it but we really didn’t think it would happen,” she said.
Nima was also the New Year’s baby for the Rockyview General Hospital and was given a special New Year’s hat for the honour.
Nima joins his two sisters, 15 and two, and a brother who is four years old.
“They love him,” Hamilton said of Nima’s siblings. “My daughters can’t stop giving him kisses and my son absolutely loves him and tries to help out as much as he can.”
Hamilton, Shasapay and their children have lived in Airdrie for a little more than two years. Hamilton said they are excited to be parents again and having the New Year’s baby is just the icing on the cake.
