Local Hospitals Welcome 1st Babies Of 2015
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Babies are born every day in Pittsburgh. But, on New Year's Day, it seems like it's a race to the finish every year.
The first New Year's baby in the Pittsburgh region was born at 1:15 AM.
Make that, first babies. A baby girl named Martecka arrived at Magee Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh at the very same time as another girl in Beaver County.
The Allegheny County baby's mother, Montecka, says her daughter arrived a bit later than expected.
"They did an emergency C-section," she says. "Then when I woke up, everybody was clapping. And they said I had the first baby of 2015!"
She was even more surprised to find that her baby and a Beaver County girl arrived in a "photo finish."
"I can't believe we had our babies the same day, at the same time!"
Martecka, a combination of her mother and father's names, is Montecka's fourth child.
"You just fall in love all over again," her mother says. "But you just can't believe that you've just got all that room in your heart to just love so deep. I just love all my kids so deep."
And the newcomer?
"I think she's perfect."
Doctors and nurses delivered a little girl at the Beaver Medical Center at 1:15 a.m. as well.
A brand new Pittsburgh Penguins fan entered the world at 1:15 AM, at Heritage Valley Hospital in Beaver. Emily Marie Hunter is the first baby of the new year to be born in Beaver County.
"She's got me wrapped around her little finger," says her father, Paul Hunter.
Though their bab is less than one day old, this farm couple already has some chores lined up.
"We live in Brighton Township," her mother Chelsea Hunter says. "But both of our families are farmers, born and raised on a farm. So as soon as she's old enough to help Grandpap in the barn, she's going."
Will she root for Pittsburgh teams? Her father isn't so sure.
"Maybe a Steelers fan, or maybe she'll get her dad's bloodline from his old active duty days, and turn into a Dallas Cowboys fan."
Mom says that is not going to happen. After all, this kid already knows how to finish first.
"I don't care if she's the first or she is the last," Chelsea says, "as long as she's healthy. That's all that matters to me."
West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield welcomed their first baby of 2015 a few hours later, at 6:25 a.m.
Last year, the title of "first baby to be born" went to Mekhi Day, who was born at 1:03 a.m., Jan. 1, 2014, at Magee Women's Hospital.
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