First Baby of the Year Born at Franklin Square

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — A boy born at 12:01 a.m. at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center was Maryland's first baby of 2017, according to the hospital. Heather Breakall delivered a 7-pound, 4-ounce boy just after midnight, the first of five newborns at the medical center the morning of Jan. 1.

"It is a Happy New Year indeed!" the medical center posted on its Facebook page, along with pictures of Breakall, fiancé Mike Butrim, their new baby boy and big brother Noah.

"...he is here and he's healthy," Breakall told WJZ of her new baby, who had not yet been named. When he showed up a week early, she said she was both "overwhelmed and excited" by his New Year's Day birth.

Butrim said the couple was "excited and blessed."

Other babies were born at Franklin Square in the 1, 3, 7 and 10 o'clock hours on Jan. 1, according to the Baltimore Sun, which reported in surrounding areas a baby was born in Rockville at 1:34 a.m. and a boy and girl (twins) were born at GBMC at 5:30 a.m.

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