Due in just a few days and with a 2-year-old on hand, Samantha Thomas was spending a quiet New Year’s Eve at home when, at about 10 p.m., she began contracting.
“They weren’t bad, so I went to bed,” said Thomas. But then, at about 4 a.m., she woke up feeling them more. By 6 a.m., she woke up the baby’s father, Marty Green, and “told him I definitely had to go to the hospital.”
Thomas dilated from six and a half centimeters to eight centimeters within about 20 minutes of arriving at Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica. The delivery went so quick, she barely had time for her epidural.
At 9:06 a.m., after about 30 minutes of pushing, Asher Martin Green was born on Tuesday, Jan. 1, making him Carroll County’s first baby of the New Year. The baby boy weighed 8 pounds, 7.1 ounces, and was 21 inches long.
Thomas and Green reside in Douglasville and have a daughter, Ava Jay Green, 2, who also was delivered at Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica.
“I love this hospital,” said Thomas. “I’ve loved staying here. The nurses are the best. I highly recommend this hospital to everyone I know who is pregnant.”
While Carroll County’s first baby of the New Year was born in Villa Rica, Carrollton’s first baby was born less than an hour later at the W. Steve Worthy Maternity Center at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton.
Kayden O’Mari Shivers was born to Taylor Arnold and Josh Shivers at 9:56 a.m., weighing 5 pounds, 2 ounces and measuring 18 and a half inches in length. Little Kayden has a 19-month-old half-sister, Audrey, Arnold’s other daughter. The couple resides in Carrollton.