First babies of 2012 born on LI welcomed
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
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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