Pass the (chocolate) cigars: Three hospitals are boasting that their patients had the first babies of 2010. Take your pick: There's baby boy Alexander Dunets, born at Brooklyn's Wyckoff Hospital; a baby boy born at Mount Sinai in Manhattan; and baby girl Thyme Eva Rogers, born at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
WCBS 2's Pablo Guzman reports that Dr. Gilda Nafarrete says little Alexander (pictured), who is about six pounds, was born exactly at midnight. And Guzman added that parents Igor and Oleksandra Dunets "came here from the Ukraine about seven years ago, and has a daughter who is 7" and that dad Igor said the delivery was easy, "She was wonderful! One push, and that was it. Yes, that's all it took."
At Mount Sinai, a five pound-one ounce boy—name to be revealed at his bris—was born to Mose and Brucha Strulovitch. NY1 says, "The New Year's baby wasn't due until January 20, but doctor's induced the mother in the early morning hours on New Year's Eve." The doctor said, "It was our goal to get her in at 37 weeks and end up with one of the last babies of the old year, not the first baby of the new year."
And the cutest story might be that of little Thyme. The Daily News reports that the 6 pound-14 ounce's babe's parents met "exactly two years before at a swanky year-ending party at a lounge in Manhattan." Aww. Dr. Cassandra Smith said she knew that the baby would be the first of the year because mom Marquita Fladger started pushing at 11:30 p.m.—and when she gave the final push, Smith said, "All the nurses came in the room and we were all just screaming and yelling."
