{"id":96387,"date":"2019-01-02T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/oaklii-tree-dutchie-is-cortezs-new-years-baby\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:00:12","slug":"oaklii-tree-dutchie-is-cortezs-new-years-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/oaklii-tree-dutchie-is-cortezs-new-years-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Oaklii Tree Dutchie is Cortez\u2019s New Year\u2019s baby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cbe8698a-79da-45f4-a47e-abc24c24f7c6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cbe8698a-79da-45f4-a47e-abc24c24f7c6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cbe8698a-79da-45f4-a47e-abc24c24f7c6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cbe8698a-79da-45f4-a47e-abc24c24f7c6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2316\" alt=\"Oaklii Dutchie was the first baby born in 2019 at Southwest Memorial Hospital. He and his mother, Selena, are both healthy, according to hospital staff.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Oaklii Dutchie was the first baby born in 2019 at Southwest Memorial Hospital. He and his mother, Selena, are both healthy, according to hospital staff.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Happy Birthday and Happy New Year to Oaklii Tree Dutchie, the first baby born in 2019 at Southwest Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The healthy boy is the first child for Selena Dutchie, of Towaoc. She and her mother drove through a snowstorm New Year\u2019s Eve to get to the hospital. They said they had been watching the televised New Year\u2019s Eve festivities from New York City when her water broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom drove very carefully. It\u2019s so cool to start off the New Year with the gift of a new baby,\u201d she said from her hospital room. \u201cHe\u2019s a good boy, and that\u2019s what I was hoping for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oaklii was born Tuesday, his expected due date, at 10:52 a.m. He weighed in at 7 pounds 15 ounces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got big hands and feet, and a head of thick hair,\u201d Dutchie said proudly. \u201cI think he will play sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The birth required a cesarean section, she said, which went smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nurses were so kind and helpful, it has been an amazing experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Raising her son in Towaoc is ideal because it is \u201cclose to nature and outdoorsy,\u201d Dutchie said. \u201cThat\u2019s where his middle name came from \u2013 a tree grows big and strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hospital provided a gift basket for the new mother and child. Whenever a child is born, the hospital plays the Brahms\u2019 \u201cLullaby\u201d over the loudspeaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a nice gesture so that everyone knows a new baby has been born,\u201d said Janet Kinsley, director of inpatient services. \u201cWe\u2019re so proud of her. She\u2019s going to be a great mom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutchie family drove in snowstorm to Cortez hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,598,538,144],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-96387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-public-holiday","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital","tag-towaoc"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96387"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=96387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}