FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Adrian Ellis, born at 2:22 a.m. New Year's Day here at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, is GLWACH's 1st baby of the New Year.
Spc. Neil and Tiffany Ellis arrived at the hospital last year at 9 p.m. New Year's Eve, celebrated the New Year in their hospital room, then celebrated the birth of 7 pound, 11 ounce, 19-and-a-half-inch, 3rd daughter, Adrian, shortly thereafter.
There was heavy competition this year for the coveted "1st Baby of the New Year" awards here at GLWACH--so fierce that families had to be moved to other hospital rooms here to make room for additional expectant moms arriving to have their babies here this year.
"We got in pretty quick--I thought it would take longer but they got us checked in and checked me out really quickly then got us to the room and all set up," said Tiffany. "It's been great--we received everything we needed and we had a really good nurse named Dana."
The Ellis family got to meet the Post Commander, Maj. Gen. Kent D. Savre and his wife, the GLWACH Commander, Col. (Dr.) Peter Nielsen, and several others bearing gifts from the PX, the Sergeant's Association, and GLWACH's own Maternal Child Unit.
Neil and Tiffany met and married at Fort Lewis, Neil's first duty station, then were stationed at Fort Polk, Fort Lewis again, and then here at Fort Leonard Wood, during their six years in the Army.
"We had really good support here with our last daughter, Myah," said Neil. "We had just gotten here and within about a month we had Myah."
Though the Ellis family got to meet the Commanding General and receive special gifts, they aren't the only newborn winners here.
General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital's Maternal Child Unit has provided the best customer service in the Army for two years straight according to independent Army mother-baby unit customer surveys sent from patients directly to the Army Office of the Surgeon General.
(Editor's note: John Brooks is the marketing and public affairs officer at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital)
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