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Baby Boom Hits Sugar Land
� Sugar Land Magazine � Sugar Land, Texas 2006
January 15, 2006
By Betsy de Vega
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Jacob and Emily� Most Popular Names
The stork brought more than its share of bundles to Sugar Land and its surrounding areas in 2005. Fort Bend County registered more than 3,000 births in 2005 alone. Sugar
Land Methodist was responsible for more than 1,000 births as of September 2005, said Karen Chitty-Boe, the hospital�s marketing director. �Our hospital delivers between 130 and 150 babies per month.� By a slight margin,
more boys than girls were born in 2005.
While multiples seem to be everywhere these days, only a few sets were born at Sugar Land Methodist last year. Jacob was a favorite name for boys and Emily for girls in 2005. While Hollywood�s celebrity moms are giving
their daughters names like �Apple,� Fort Bend County has its fair share of unique and interesting baby names. The Sugar Land area welcomed baby girls with names like �Jewel,� �Raine,� �Ireland� and �America� and boys
named �Chasetown,� �Diamond� and �Skai.� Maybe next year we can welcome baby �Sugar Land.� Any volunteers?
Rita Baby� Ethan Jennings
No mother forgets the birth of her baby. It�s even harder to forget, though, when baby comes in like a hurricane� during a hurricane! Susanne Jennings and her family
decided to try to evacuate to Austin during Hurricane Rita because Susanne, who was 9 months pregnant, could have gone into labor at any moment. However, Susanne�s husband wasn�t able to get off work fast enough, so they
flew in Susanne�s mother from Alabama hoping she could take Susanne and Susanne�s 2-year-old daughter, Sydney, to Austin.
�But we never made it there because it took us 5 hours to drive from Hobby Airport to New Territory!� Worried but not ready to sit in traffic for any longer, Susanne went back home for the night, and after lots of
discussion, the family decided to stay in Sugar Land and ride out the storm. They heard that some area hospitals were evacuating their patients and would only have emergency rooms open, but that Memorial Southwest would
remain open. They planned to go to the hospital that night just in case. Their neighbors had a different idea. �Our neighbors, Matt and Judi Davis, told us that Matt�s father wanted Matt and Judi and their two girls to
drive down to Corpus to stay with him and Matt�s mother. He arrived late that night and said that the traffic wasn�t too bad, so Matt, Judi, their two girls, and Judi�s mother packed up and left at 11 p.m. to go to
Corpus,� Susanne said. �Matt�s dad invited us to stay with them as well, but we initially said that we�d rather stay at home.� Two hours later, the Jennings decided better safe than sorry. �We left our house at 1 a.m.
Friday morning, and we arrived in Corpus at 4 a.m. We had a nice breakfast together that morning and we were having a nice visit with our hosts when at 10:30 a.m., I realized that I was in labor!� Susanne went to the
emergency room and, because she was one of the only ones there, things seemed to move rather quickly. �We were blessed with a beautiful baby boy! We named him Ethan Cole Jennings,� Susanne said. �We are so thankful to
have such helpful and caring neighbors.� No mother forgets the birth of her baby. It�s even harder to forget, though, when baby comes in like a hurricane� during a hurricane! Susanne Jennings and her family decided to
try to evacuate to Austin during Hurricane Rita because Susanne, who was 9 months pregnant, could have gone into labor at any moment. However, Susanne�s husband wasn�t able to get off work fast enough, so they flew in
Susanne�s mother from Alabama hoping she could take Susanne and Susanne�s 2-year-old daughter, Sydney, to Austin.
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