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Three babies greet 2009
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Posted on Jan 02 2009
The New Year began on a particularly bright note for three women in the Commonwealth, who welcomed their babies into the world on Jan. 1.
The first baby of the year was born minutes after the clock struck midnight.
Ann Marie Skilang Marciano, 23, and her boyfriend Michael Ayuyu, 24, welcomed Crisha Rose Sinako Ayuyu Marciano at 12:21am. She weighed in at 6 pounds 6.2 ounces.
Marciano, who went into labor early in the day on Dec. 31, said Crisha was not due for another week.
“I wasn’t expecting her,” she said of the baby, whose name has several family ties.
Crisha is a combination of Marciano’s two sisters’ names, Crystal and Isha. Rose is for Ayuyu’s grandmother while Sinako is in honor of Marciano’s great grandmother. Marciano said she was told that as the first baby born in 2009, Crisha would receive Pampers diapers for one year.
Crisha isn’t the only New Year’s Day baby in the family. Ayuyu’s youngest brother was the first baby born in 1984.
Marciano’s sister Isha said Marciano could now enjoy the New Year.
“She’s just happy because she finally has her baby,” Isha said.
Marivet T. Antonino said she feels the same way.
Antonino welcomed Andres Antonio Antonino Arza at 12:14pm Jan. 1. Antonino was due Dec. 31, and her water broke that day, but Andres Antonio wasn’t born until the 1st when Antonino had a Caesarean section.
“I felt so happy when I saw my baby,” she said of Andres, who weighed 8 pounds 13. 3 ounces.
Antonino said she didn’t think of her baby being a New Year’s baby until after the fact.
“Because it’s my first baby, I don’t really differentiate,” she said. “But, as a mother, to have a New Year’s baby I feel so happy, starting of the month, starting of the year, you have this little angel born. It’s so good.”
The hospital refused to identify the third baby due to health privacy laws and the parents have yet to authorize the release of information relating to the child as of press time.
Veronica S. Servidad, a nurse in the OB Ward, said that although there was only one baby born on New Year’s Day last year, three is the average. Every month, more than 100 babies are born at the Commonwealth Health Center, she said.
