Brittany Franklin came to the hospital with what she thought was a stomach bug at around 11:00 am on December 31, 2018. And at 1:04 am on January 1, 2019, she gave birth to daughter Mackenzee Lynn Robinson, the first baby of 2019 born at Mission Hospital.
Big brother Blake, almost 4, has been really wanting to meet his new sister, but Franklin wasn’t due to give birth until February 3. Born at 35 weeks, Mackenzee is spending some time in the Mission NICU, but she is stable and according to mom, “she’s doing really well.” Mackenzee was 6 pounds 9 ounces and 20 inches at birth and stay-at-home mom Brittany said, “I’m excited to for her to get better and to be able to hold her.”
Big brother Blake was born on January 31, and everyone in the family is excited to have two birthdays to celebrate in January, one on the first day of the month and one on the last day of the month.
Mission Health, based in Asheville, North Carolina, is the state’s sixth-largest health system. In 2018, for the sixth time in the past seven years, Mission Health has been named one of the nation’s Top 15 Health Systems by IBM Watson Health. We are the only health system in North Carolina to achieve this recognition. Mission Health operates six hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery centers, post-acute care provider CarePartners, long-term acute care provider Asheville Specialty Hospital and the region’s only dedicated Level II trauma center. With approximately 12,000 team members and 2,000 volunteers, Mission Health is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of the people of western North Carolina. For more information, please visit missionhealth.org or @MissionHealthNC.