Staff report

NORWAY – The tri-county area’s first baby of the new year arrived at 2:41 Sunday morning at Stephens Memorial Hospital.

And 8-pound, 3-ounce Aden James Dunn couldn’t have been more welcomed.

He gives mom, Jessica Prada-Dunn, and dad, James Dunn, of Hebron the perfect nuclear family, joining firstborn sister Kaitlyn, who’s now 2½ years old.

Aden’s arrival went like clockwork, said his mom, providing ample advance time to get to the hospital, then taking his first breath after an easy labor.

But while Aden’s birth is welcomed, it wasn’t planned in conjunction with the calendar page being flipped.

“I did not want to be in the newspaper” for his birth, said Jessica. “But at least it will be for something good.”

Something else that might be good: Many merchants traditionally shower the year’s firstborn with gifts.

“I haven’t heard of any,” said Aden’s mom Sunday evening, but she added they’d be welcome.

Prada-Dunn works at TD Banknorth. She said she’ll return to work following a six-to-10-week maternity leave.

Dad James Dunn is a self-employed logger.

Aden’s grandparents are Alden and Kristine Prada of Paris and Everett and Linda Dunn of Hebron.

The second baby to arrive in the Androscoggin-Franklin-Oxford-county region was born at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, a boy who arrived at 6:47 a.m. Sunday.

Maine’s first baby of the new year is believed to have been born in Portland, where the Maine Medical Center reported a birth at 12:36 a.m. Sunday.

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