First babies of 2012 born on LI welcomed

New Hyde Park - January 1, 2012: Nicolette Hunt who... — New Hyde Park - January 1, 2012: Nicolette Hunt who weighed 7 pounds and was one of the first babies born on Long Island in 2012 sleeps at North Shore LIJ Hospital. (Photo by Patrick E. McCarthy) Credit: Photo by Patrick E. McCarthy

By JAMES BERNSTEINjames.bernstein@newsday.comJanuary 1, 2012

Long Island Jewish Medical Center welcomed its first baby of the new year at 12:00:01 a.m. Sunday when Nicolette Hunt was born. The baby girl, weighing exactly 7 pounds and measuring 20 inches long, was welcomed by her parents, Eleni, 32, and James Hunt, 29, of Little Neck, Queens.

The couple has one other child, a daughter, Victoria, 2.

Just three seconds later -- at 12:00:04 a.m. -- Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow greeted Danilo Alexander Mojica. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 20 inches long.

His parents are Alicia, 29, and Carlos Mojica, 32, of Hicksville, who have one other child, a daughter, Gennesis, 7.

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