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First births in 2008

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

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By KERANA TODOROV
Register Staff Writer

7:00 p.m.

Oscar Brown doesn’t understand it yet and won’t for awhile, but he was the toast of the valley Tuesday morning, when he became the first baby born in Napa County in 2008.

Surrounded by family and friends, Calistoga’s newest resident was born at St Helena Hospital at 4:40 a.m., according to someone who should know -- his mother, Genevieve Welsh.

“He’s very handsome,” Welsh said proudly.

Oscar, who weighed 7.5 pounds and measured 21.5 inches long, is the first child for Welsh, 34, a farmer who also coaches girls basketball at Calistoga High School, and winemaker Thomas Brown, 35.

Among those on hand Tuesday were Welsh's parents, Nannette and Barney Welsh, her brother Brendan and her best friend since kindergarten, Rachel Davies.

"We're very excited," Welsh said.

As he held his son, Brown said he still could not believe that he's a father.

"It's pretty surreal," Brown said as Oscar slept in his arms.

Welsh, who grows greens with her father and two partners at Forni Brown Gardens, said Oscar came at the perfect time.

After all, it is the slow season at the Calistoga farm.

Welsh went into labor at 2 a.m. Dec. 31. Labor was harder than she expected, she said, but her doctor and nurse were wonderful, she said.

"We feel very blessed," Welsh said.

With parents involved in agriculture, Oscar will have strong roots in Calistoga. He already has work boots, his parents said Tuesday.

It’s a girl

Down in Napa, Caylee Grace Rawdon came into the world Tuesday at 5:17 a.m., in time to celebrate her mother's 25th birthday at Queen of the Valley Medical Center. She was expected to arrive Jan. 1, said her mother, Natalie Rawdon, who was in labor for 4.5 hours.

"We're all doing well," said Rawdon, who was in the company of her husband and a sister-in-law when Caylee was born.

The baby girl, whose family recently moved from Napa to American Canyon, weighs 7.5 pounds and measure 21 inches long, said Rawdon.

Rawdon, a homemaker, and her husband, Darrell Rawdon, a forklift operator, already have three boys and a girl.

"They¹re all excited," said Natalie Rawdon.

The oldest, Destiny, is particularly happy to have another girl at home, Natalie Rawdon said.

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