An employee of Ross Memorial Hospital was dealing with an entirely different type of labour on Friday morning (January 3).
That’s when Lydia Schmid, who works in environmental support services at the Lindsay hospital, gave birth to the hospital’s first baby of 2025.
Schmid and her partner Steve Burbine, both of Lindsay, welcomed baby girl Sophie into the world, weighing six pounds and 12 ounces, a few days earlier than expected.
“Sophie came very quick,” Lydia explains in a media release from the hospital. “We were scheduled for Monday, but I woke up at three in the morning having contractions.”
“It wasn’t our intention to have the New Year’s baby — we jumped the gun,” she says, adding “My first child was a week early too.”
That child, three-year-old Maggie, has already visited her new baby sister.
As for the proud father, Burbine says he’s “excited.”
“You’re nervous for this moment, but once you realize today is the day it’s just like ‘let’s go.’ And noticing the similarities and differences between her and Maggie at not even 24 hours old, it’s really fun.”
“This completes our family,” says Schmid, who initially met Burbine when they worked together years ago.
Both Sophie and her mom are happy and healthy and anticipate being discharged from the hospital sometime on Saturday.
“We’re going to take it one day at a time,” Schmid says of Sophie. “She has hardly cried at all — we’ll see how long that lasts.”
