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AV Hospital welcomes first baby born in 2016

by The AV Times Staff • January 8, 2016

Parents, Erica and Steven Lockshin, spend time in the AV Hospital NICU with baby Isabel. [contributed]
Parents, Erica and Steven Lockshin, spend time in the AV Hospital NICU with baby Isabel. [contributed]
LANCASTER— While Antelope Valley residents were busy greeting the new year with family and friends, Isabel Hannah Lockshin was greeting the world with her first cries of life.

Born at 12:27 a.m. on Jan. 1,  Isabel is Antelope Valley Hospital’s first baby of 2016.

She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces; measured 19 inches in length; and was delivered via Cesarean section by attending obstetrician, Dr. Dietmar A. Habeck for Dr. Barry J. Berman, the mother’s obstetrician throughout her pregnancy.

Isabel is the first child born to Steven and Erica Lockshin from Lancaster.

“We were very happy to meet her,” said new mom, Erica. “And we are so grateful for the wonderful care she received at Antelope Valley Hospital on the day of her arrival, and now in the NICU as she gets stronger and we prepare to bring her home.”

Isabel was born at risk for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, which is a lack of oxygen and blood flow to the brain. Following her delivery, she was transferred to UCLA for body cooling to help prevent neurological damage. Studies show the cooling needs to start within six hours of birth in order to be effective. Isabel was cooled for 72 hours and follow-up testing indicates she is doing very well.

AVH Neonatologist Dr. Murugesa M. Thangavel and AVH Chief Executive Officer John Rossfeld congratulate parents Erica and Steven Lockshin on the arrival of their first child, Isabel Hannah Lockshin. [contributed]
AVH Neonatologist Dr. Murugesa M. Thangavel and AVH Chief Executive Officer John Rossfeld congratulate parents Erica and Steven Lockshin on the arrival of their first child, Isabel Hannah Lockshin. [contributed]
She was recently transported back to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at AVH where she is being attended to by Neonatologist Dr. Murugesa M. Thangavel. AVH recently purchased this specialized cooling equipment and will begin using it in early 2016.

“We are so happy that baby Isabel is doing well and on the road to recovery,” said John Rossfeld, AVH chief executive officer. “We are glad we could take part in getting her off to a good start, and we wish her a lifetime of good health and happiness.”

As the community’s first baby of 2016, Isabel and her parents were given a large gift basket from AVH that included a variety of baby items, such as an infant car seat, blankets, clothes, shoes, supplies, crib accessories and stuffed animals.

Tens of thousands of Antelope Valley residents have been brought into the world at AVH since its doors opened in 1955. More than 5,400 newborns were delivered at AVH’s Women and Infants Pavilion in the past 12 months alone.

The Women and Infants Pavilion features 39 private “Couplet Care” rooms that are furnished with special beds and bassinets so that the mother and baby can stay in the same room until they go home. The facility is also home to a level 3b community NICU equipped with 20 private rooms to care for newborns with special needs as well as three technologically-advanced surgery suites.

In 2015 AVH was designated a Baby-Friendly Birth Facility, which means the hospital has met the gold standard in maternity care operations. For the past five years, AVH has received the Healthgrades® 5-star Maternity Care Excellence Award. This award recognizes hospitals that provide consistent high-quality care for women and their babies during pregnancy, delivery and the first few days after delivery.

[Information via news release from Antelope Valley Hospital.]

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Filed Under: Health, Lancaster

5 comments for "AV Hospital welcomes first baby born in 2016"

  1. mARTHA says

    January 19, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    Wow you people are all so crazy !!! You don’t have anything nice to say ever…. My Grand daughter was the first newborn last year and all the comments that we got were not nice either what is wrong with everybody? Haven’t you heard the term “If you don’t have something nice to say don’t say anything at all.” My grand daughter was born c section also it dosent matter…

    CONGRATS ON YOUR NEW BABY!!! SHE IS SO PRETTY!! THE TIME GOES BY SOO FAST!!

  2. Sammi says

    January 12, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    Wait till Rex sneaks his birth tourism in. It’ll be Baby Mania at AV Hospital.

  3. lucy says

    January 11, 2016 at 10:30 am

    I’m just curious aren’t c-sections not counted as anyone can say oh yes take the baby instead of real and natural might be different as baby was coming but was sick so they had to c-section baby just curious though best wishes and sure hope this lil sweetheart gets well fast <3

  4. Lola D says

    January 8, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    The hospital welcomes the first baby of the year that is why they get a basket. If people knew how to read the baby wasn’t in the best of health. Wish the family the best.

  5. Sherri sheets says

    January 8, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    Why did they decide to do something now. Lame excuse that they didn’t have the resources to give a gift basket. Better late than never. SMH.

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