Virginia Marston of Monmouth holds her newborn daughter Isis Serenity Safran with her father, Johnston Safran in the Family Birthing Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston Friday afternoon.

LEWISTON — When Virginia Marston went into labor, just beginning contractions on New Year’s Day, there was little thought of her child’s status as a new year baby.

“We had other things on our minds,” Marston said. “My labor was very quick, only 10 minutes.”

At 11:45 a.m. Friday, the 24-year-old Monmouth woman became a mom, giving birth to Isis Serenity Safran. Her little girl weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and had a head of chestnut-auburn hair.

Both mom and daughter were healthy, if a little groggy Friday afternoon. Isis’ dad, Johnston Safran, led a long line of family that visited St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center to see Virginia and the little girl, Lewiston-Auburn’s first baby of the new decade.

“People have been here all day,” said Marston, a first-time mom.

The statewide honor of new year baby appears to go to Sonya Webb, who was born at 12:04 a.m. at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington.

The girl and her mother, Alysha Webb, 23, of Wilton, were both healthy. Sonya emerged at a full 9 pounds, 6 ounces, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

Alysha Webb declined to comment to the Sun Journal.

Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston had yet to record a birth as of Friday afternoon. Other babies were reported born at 1:19 a.m. at Maine Medical Center in Portland, and at 3:23 a.m. at York Hospital in York, according to the Associated Press.

No babies were born Friday at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway, Bridgton Hospital or Rumford Hospital as of 9 p.m., nursing supervisors said.

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