HCA’s First Babies of 2012

2030 might seem like a long time from now but for the New Year’s Day newborns of 2012 it is their high school graduation date. HCA was there to welcome two such newborns into the world within a minute of the clock striking midnight. Jaden Adams came into the world at 12:00:05 at Ogden Regional Medical Center in Ogden Utah and Ethan Jaquez at 12:01 at Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. We would like to ring in the New Year by sharing both of their wonderful stories with you.

(Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Jaden was born five seconds after the hour as the nurses finished counting down the clock in the birthing center of HCA’s Ogden Regional Medical Center in Ogden, Utah. Jaden was the first baby of the New Year at Ogden Regional and is thought to be the first baby in the entire state of Utah. It was Dr. Fred Seale’s first delivery of the night. A whopping 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 21½ inches, Jaden was the only eventful part of the evening for the hospital.

And for first time parents, Sandy and Bryant Adams, it was a thankfully uneventful delivery.

You can read the rest of their story here.

(Mark Lambie/El Paso Times)

In another part of the country, less than a minute later, Ethan Jaquez entered the world. A healthy 7 pounds and 2 ounces, Ethan was delivered at 12:01 a.m., New Year’s Day at HCA’s Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. It was an unexpected visit for the mother, Cristina Jaquez, twenty days early, in fact; but Ethan was the first born baby in El Paso County in 2012.

Veronica Muñoz, the charge nurse for the postpartum floor said in an interview with The El Paso Times, “The birth was a great thing for both the mother and the hospital – to have the honor of the first baby born in 2012. I had never worked on New Year’s Day before; it’s great to see this happen,” Muñoz said.

You can Read the newspaper’s report of Ethan Dominguez’s birth here.