Vancouver family’s fourth child is 2014’s first in a Clark County hospital

She was due in 2013, but baby Ella had other plans. She became the first child born at a Clark County hospital in 2014, arriving at 1:07 a.m. Wednesday.

Ella is the fourth child for Vasiliy Stanislavov and wife Liliya. The Vancouver family arrived at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center just before 9 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. Of the three other children — Mark, 7, Victoria, 4, and Andre, 2 — the most excited may have been Victoria, Vasiliy said.

“She was waiting for her sister,” he said. “Two days in a row she was asking, ‘When are we going to have the baby?'”

Ella’s due date was Dec. 29. When she arrived, she weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and measured 19 1/2 inches long.

“We think kids (are) like a gift from God,” Vasiliy said.

Ella wasn’t the first New Year’s Day baby in the entire Portland-Vancouver area. One Portland hospital reportedly welcomed its first baby early Wednesday, just minutes after midnight.

The first baby born at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center on Wednesday didn’t arrive until the afternoon, said Legacy spokeswoman Julie Reed. Kaylee Hall was born to parents Ryan and Moon Hall at 2:30 p.m. She weighed 4 pounds 10 ounces and measured 18 inches long.