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First baby doing well, growing
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Cory Rodebaugh and Nikole Schaitel have been able to spend more time with their daughter, Kaylee, who was born Jan. 1 at Monroe Clinic. Kaylee was the first baby born in Green county in 2009. She was born premature and taken to a Madison hospital shortly after she was born. Schaitel said Kaylees health is improving.
BRODHEAD - Green County's first baby of 2009 remains in a Madison hospital but is expected to come home by the end of the month.

Kaylee Faye Rodebaugh was born at 9:38 a.m. Jan. 1 at the Monroe Clinic. She was born two months early, her mother, Nikole Schaitel said.

Kaylee was immediately transported by helicopter to the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison.

Schaitel said this week that Kaylee is still at St. Mary's Hospital and "is doing better.

"She still has trouble breathing sometimes and her heart rate drops (at times)," Schaitel said.

The baby now weighs 4 pounds and 11 ounces. She weighed 3 pounds, 5 ounces when she was born.

Schaitel and Kaylee's father, Cory Rodebaugh, live in Brodhead. Kaylee's grandparents are Dick and Doreen Weiler, Monroe, and Scott and Frieda Douglas, Brodhead. Kaylee has five sisters, Makayla, 11, Asia, 7, McKenzie, 4, Carlee, 2 and Trinity, 11 months; and a brother, Trevor, 6.