Moms get 3 premature babies on Mother’s Day

THIRTY-THREE-year-old Lena Siew of Freeport was, the first mother to give birth on Mother’s Day at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH). The baby girl, two months pre-mature, who was not yet named, was born at 1.51 am and weighed 2.16 kilogrammes. Siew, employed with a pharmacy, became a mother for the second time, her first child — a girl, is three years old. Unfortunately though for Siew — she was unable to see her newborn baby, as “the baby was born prematurely, she was having difficulties in breathing and had to be rushed and placed in the incubator, so I did not even get chance to see her. I can’t wait though,” an exhausted but elated Siew said.

Like Siew’s baby, two others who were born yesterday in the north Trinidad — one at Mt Hope and the other at Port-of-Spain, were also premature and had to be placed in incubators. Siew told Newsday that she and her husband, Vijay, were both excited for the new addition to their family and blushingly, she said, “No more; two is enough.” Ann-Rose Chris-topher, a Cheekies detailing representative was yesterday on hand at the Maternity Ward of the hospital to present Siew with a Cheekies hamper and a month’s supply of pampers.

The second baby — a boy, to be born at the SFGH, came one minute after the first. Maria Simon, 31, of 132 Manahambre Road, Ste Madeleine gave birth to her fifth child at 1.52 am. The healthy baby boy, also yet to be named, weighed 3.02 kilogrammes. Speaking with Newsday Simon said that although she never took an ultrasound to find out the sex of her baby she knew it was a boy. “I knew I was having a boy, so I went and buy everything for the baby in blue.  I knew it without a doubt, especially with my last child, a boy, now ten years — I had the same feelings.”