Kristen Leavitt and Joe Dorval enjoy their celebration meal before taking their newborn son, Nathan, home.
Lobster Ravioli. Baked sole stuffed with crabmeat and scallop stuffing. Tender sautéed sirloin beef tips in a bourbon infused sauce. Fresh mozzarella & tomato salad with olive oil & fresh basil.
Tiramisu.
Doesn’t really sound like offerings you’d find at your local hospital, does it?
But those items and more are on the celebration dinner menu for new parents of babies born at Waldo County General Hospital. And they aren’t served on a plastic tray. Before the new parents take the newest member of their family home, they are invited to sit down to a gourmet meal at a table with a tablecloth and flowers in the center in the Women & Infants Health Care Unit.
Many of the new parents, especially those with children at home, realize this may be the last fancy meal they are able to have with each other for a while.
With two boys at home, 8 years old and 22 months, Kristen Leavitt knows there aren’t going to be a lot of quiet, sit down together meals after she and Joe Dorval take newborn Nathan home to Stockton Springs.
That knowledge seems to make Joe and Kristen enjoy their meal even more.
And if tiramisu isn’t your cup of tea, the chocolate indulgence cake and New York style cheesecake with fresh seasonal berries look delicious, too.