COEUR d’ALENE — Selah Glendening was asleep Saturday night, tired from a lengthy pregnancy and an earlier New Year’s Eve party.

She missed the countdown in Times Square, but husband Luke Glendening was sure to interrupt his wife’s slumber with a New Year’s kiss.

A half hour later, Selah was in labor.

“When we got to the hospital, it was like a ghost town,” said Selah, who has been married to Luke for three years. “I figured someone had to have already had a baby by the time we got there.”

Not quite.

At 4:07 a.m., Selah gave birth to her second child, Elliot Archer Glendening, a 6-pound, 8-ounce boy, the first child delivered in Kootenai County in 2017. They’ll refer to him by his middle name, Archer.

“That way when he gets old, he can use Elliot if he wants because it sounds more professional,” Luke said.

The baby came a week before his due date of Jan. 6, but Selah had a feeling it would come a little early.

Her best friend, Rachel Dunn, initially planned to fly from Nash-ville Jan. 3 to be with her best friend during labor, but Selah insisted she come a little earlier.

“She told me to fly in Dec. 30th, I think it was jumping mommy intuition that I needed to be here,” Dunn said.

The young couple marveled that Archer, who is 19 inches in length, had been very quiet and calm throughout the day.

“It’s such a chill baby,” Selah said as she held his tiny hand. “He’s so soft.”

Selah admitted that she wanted the birth to happen as soon as possible, and tried a couple of methods she hoped would invoke labor.

Luke joked that if the baby would have been delivered on Dec. 31, they would have gotten a break on their next tax return.

The Kootenai Health nurses were quick to tell the Glendenings their newborn had the title of New Year’s baby.

“Different nurses were telling us that we had the New Year’s baby,” Luke said. “Another person had a baby four minutes before midnight, so it was pretty close.”

“We didn’t know it was such a big deal to have the first baby on New Year’s Day,” Selah said. “It’s pretty cool.”