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Middletown hosts a ’first baby1 for 74By ROBERTA THUMIMMIDDLETOWN — As 1973 went out on New Year’s Eve, Mrs. Mark Edelman was helping her husband manage the family’s Homestead Restaurant in Bridgeville.But as 1974 came in, the Edelmans were in their car moving over icy Wurtsboro Hills toward Horton Memorial Hospital, where Kristin Lee Edelman, the area’s firstV-:-:. r-;Norton Hospital's first-born of 1974 is Kristin loo Edetman, daughter of the mark Edelmans of Hurteyvilk, and diown 12 hours after birth.—Retard photo by Pouf Updike.reported birth in the new year, was bom at 2:25 a.m.Her older sister Cary 3, and brother Darren, 1 will join in her welcome to the world when she goes home to Columbia Road in Hurleyville.She's so petite next to my others/’ said Brenda Edelman, 23, who expected Kristin to arrive a little later in the week.Mrs. Edelman stood outside the nursery where Kristin, six pounds, nine ounces and 18 Vz inches of squalling life was being held up for visitors’ pleasure by a nurse.The baby’s maternal grandparents, Mr.Sullivan's first: Melissa YoungLOOMIS — The first New Years’ baby in Sullivan County — Melissa Michele Young of Livingston Manor — checked in at 5:20 a.m. at Liberty-Lfrimis Hospital, weighing six pounds, seven-ounces.Melissa is the third child of Mr. and Mrs. David Young of School Street Garden Apartments, The Manor, and their first girl. Their other two children are David Jr., 4, and Adam, 2. , ,and Mrs. John Kroeger of Monticello have already seen her. But her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Sulick of Monticello, left for Florida Dec. 31 and did not know that they had a New Year’s Day grandchild.The baby was delivered by Marvin Bloshinsky, M.D. of Middletown.Asked how the other children feel about the new arrival, Mark Edelman, 24, said that Cary had begun to realize, “she’ll no longer be daddy's little baby girL”Mrs. Edelman explained that Cary had gotten a Tiny Tears doll for Christmas and seems a little confused about whether real babies come wrapped in cellophane.“Maybe she thinks Kristin just came a little late to go under the Christmas tree,” she said.In a way, the Edelman’s are disappointed that Kristin was bom now that 1974 has begun.“We were hoping she’s be born in December/’ said Mrs. Edelman, “because she’d have been able to start school a year early. And my husband was hoping for a tax deduction.“Had I known she was going to be bom only two hours after 1973 ended,” she said, “I would have.tried harder!” ,
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The Times Herald Record
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Jan 02, 1974
Page 48
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