BANGOR – Isaiah Albert Farrington of Bangor was welcomed into the world on New Year’s Day by family from the Bangor and Lincoln areas.

The first baby born in 2007 in the Bangor Daily News coverage area, Isaiah was healthy and his mom, Kaitlyn Farrington, 19, of Bangor, was resting comfortably Monday afternoon in her room in the maternity ward at Eastern Maine Medical Center.

“I was expecting to have him on the 30th,” Farrington said in a brief telephone interview early Monday evening.

Farrington checked into the Bangor hospital at 11 p.m. New Year’s Eve. She said her mother watched the ball drop in Times Square in New York City on television and that she knitted while waiting for Isaiah to be born.

“He’s adorable,” the proud mother said, adding that it appears the new baby will have dark hair.

Farrington’s older sister, Amy Villnave, who lives in New York with her husband and four children, was among the relatives on hand to welcome the newest addition to the family.

Villnave’s holiday visit to Maine was a Christmas present from her husband, Farrington said.

Isaiah, born at 9:10 a.m. at EMMC, weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 211/4 inches long.

The boy is Farrington’s second child. Her first, a son named Dawson, is 19 months old, the spokeswoman said.

Isaiah, however, wasn’t the first New Year’s baby born in Maine.

That honor appears to have gone to a baby boy born at 2:30 a.m. at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, based on an informal survey Monday of Maine hospitals.

Details about the birth were not available late Monday afternoon.

Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, Maine Medical Center in Portland, MaineGeneral Hospital’s Thayer Unit in Waterville and Goodall Hospital in Sanford also welcomed New Year’s babies.

Next to arrive in northern and eastern Maine was Robert Christopher Cyr, born at 12:14 p.m. at Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln.

Robert’s parents, Christopher Cyr and Patricia Howe, live in Millinocket. Their healthy baby boy weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and measured 191/2 inches long.

“We’re very excited for the parents,” said Allison Bankston, the Lincoln hospital’s director of marketing and development.

“What a great way to start out the new year,” she said.