The North Shore’s first baby of 2025 wasn’t upset about getting up early on New Year’s Day.
Actually, he’s a “pretty chill guy,” according to his parents.
At 8:46 a.m. on Jan. 1, Remy Lockitt Brown was welcomed into the world by staff at Lions Gate Hospital, and his mom and dad, Kendra Williams and Sean Brown.
Weighing a healthy eight pounds four ounces, Remy was a bit late from his due date on Boxing Day, which isn’t uncommon for first-time mothers like Williams.
The North Vancouver couple said they went in for a scheduled ultrasounds on Dec. 31, but it wasn’t the visit they expected. Williams’s amniotic fluid was low, so she was sent up to labour and delivery, where she started having contractions.
During her gruelling 15 hours in labour, Williams received little festive encouragement.
“We got to see some fireworks go off from our room, which was really cool,” she said. “In the trenches of labour, and you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, hold on, Happy New Year!’”
A few hours later, they had something even better to celebrate.
Remy is a fantastic baby, the couple said.
“He’s completely and totally captured our hearts,” Williams said. “He’s a cute little guy, very sweet. Good eater. As good a sleeper as any newborn is. He’s awesome.”
They’ve been very well taken care of at Lions Gate Hospital, she added.
“The nurses and the doctors have all visited us, and have given us so much love, attention and validation. It’s been really fantastic,” Williams said.
The couple – who’ve been married for two-and-a-half years, and together for nine – gave Remy the middle name Lockitt, a nod to Williams’s late father, who passed Jan. 19, 2024.
Since Remy’s birth, the young family has been visited by his other grandparents and their immediate family.
On the personality side, Remy takes after Brown.
“He’s pretty laid back,” Brown said.
“Pretty chill guy, just like his dad,” Williams said.
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