Baby Rose made her debut nine days late to become Naval Medical Center Portsmouth's (NMCP) first baby born in 2016.

NMCP's labor and delivery team delivered Rose Vorpahl at 9:14 a.m. on Jan. 1, the baby of David and Laura Vorpahl.

Rose weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces and was 21 inches long, and is the couple's second child.

David is an electronics technician second class assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS James E. Williams.

"We are happy and healthy, and I am glad the staff was so amazing during this trying time," David said. "[Rose] is here, and mommy's doing well, and we are looking forward to going home."

During the stay, the president of the Oakleaf Club of Tidewater presented the family with a gift basket to recognize them for the birth of the New Year's first baby. The basket included about a dozen items, such as diapers, wipes, toys and a bib with "I Love NMCP" cross-stitched onto it.

The total number of deliveries for NMCP's birthing center in 2015 was 2,973, with the average number of deliveries at more than eight per day. The month with the most births was July with 297, and the center finished out the year with 242 births in December.

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