LEWISTON — Mother Keiyana Waters-Myers wasn’t expecting to meet her baby boy until sometime this weekend.

Little Daijon, he had other ideas — and that was just fine with mom.

“All I kept thinking was, ‘Let’s get this done,'” Waters-Myers, 22, of Lewiston said.

Daijon was the first baby born in the Twin Cities in 2015, just 53 minutes into the new year.

Nurse-midwife Caitlin Feliciano said it was a beautiful, smooth birth — the kind that would make other first-time mothers jealous. Waters-Myers was in labor for six hours and had to push for 15 minutes before the baby was born.

“Usually, it can take from 12 to 24 hours for a first baby, commonly,” Feliciano said. “And first-time moms usually have to push for one to three hours.

“So to push for only 15 minutes, that’s really something,” Feliciano said.

Wednesday was a busy day for St. Mary’s maternity ward. Feliciano said the hospital had several mothers in labor at the start of the day.

“We had two others in labor,” Feliciano said. “We didn’t even expect (Waters-Myers). When she called me, I didn’t think she really was in labor. She was way too calm, cool and collected. I thought she’d be just wasting her time.”

Waters-Myers said she’d had some labor pains earlier in the day.

“I called (the hospital), but I explained that I didn’t want to come in just to be sent back home,” she said. “So I tracked my contractions, and they had me come in. When they checked, I was five centimeters dilated. And from there, it just got intense.”

Baby Daijon was due Saturday, and she had scheduled photographs of her and her fully developed baby bump for that morning. But that wasn’t to be. She said she’d have to settle for taking Daijon’s first formal baby pictures.

Daijon was 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth and 21½ inches long.

He wasn’t the first baby born in Maine in 2015. That honor goes to Wil Vander Lugt, born five minutes earlier at 12:48 a.m. Thursday at Augusta’s MaineGeneral hospital to parents Amanda Adcock and Chad Vander Lugt of Waterville.

A New Year’s Day baby was delivered at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, as well, a baby boy born to Kimberly Bellanceau and John Oberton of Livermore at 9:52 a.m.

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