Lodge Village woman gives birth to first baby for 2019

IT WOULD APPEAR that newborn Touré Ronaldo Douglas, named after a well known footballer, had a secret goal of being born on New Year’s Day.

Not only did little Touré give his mother a surprise 24-hour labour, which started on Old Year’s Day and ended on the morning of New Year’s, but he also came two weeks early.

As the due date was January 13, Touré, who weighed less than seven pounds, came as a surprise and effectively cancelled his parents’ plans to go to church on New Year’s Day.

First time mother, 22-year-old Jahmeel Ollivierre went into labour at two in the morning on December 31, but did not deliver until 2:16 am on January 1, 2018.

Ollivierre said that she and her fiancé Andre Douglas did not arrive at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) until 10 p.m. on Old Year’s night.

As she sat quietly in the maternity ward, getting used to the idea of being a mother, Ollivierre recalled that she had been in intense pain. “I went into the room at two o’clock and he was born 16 past two,” she revealed, while describing how everything happened quickly in the end.

Not only is Ollivierre, from Lodge Village, a first time mother, but her mother is also a first time grandmother. The young mother said that her fiancé was in the room with her, and her mother was outside when she was delivering, and that she is one of two daughters for her mother.

Touré was named by his father after a footballer, but when Ollivierre was asked if she wanted her son to be a footballer, she responded simply and with a laugh, “Ish.”

After thinking about it for a little while, she answered that for her son’s future, she wished for him, “Long life…health… strength.”

Ollivierre declined to have herself or her baby photographed.