New Arrival: Raiden Cade Azrgaiyaq Sockpick

Nome, Alaska – Norton Sound Health Corporation’s first baby of 2024 waited until the early morning hours of January 5 to make his entrance.
Raiden Kade Azrgaiyaq Sockpick was born at 1:25 a.m. at Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome.
Ida Sockpick of Shishmaref had been waiting in Nome to deliver and had been experiencing contractions for a couple of days. On the evening of January 4, she went to the hospital, and with Dr. Jacquelyn Serrano’s help, Sockpick delivered her baby boy several hours later.
Raiden weighed 7 pounds and 9 ounces and measured 21 inches long. He is Sockpick and James Barr’s third child, brother to Frederick, 9, and Analeese, 7.
“We were all happy to have him,” Sockpick said but noted that Analeese was especially excited. “She didn’t want to leave the hospital.” But Barr put the kids to bed on Jan. 4, and when they awoke the following morning, their first stop after a quick breakfast was meeting their baby brother.
Raiden is grandson to Roy and Helen Sockpick and to Donna Barr and John Weyiouanna.
His Inupiaq name is after Sockpick’s grandfather, Davis Sockpick.