New Year. Newborns! As the world celebrated the big arrival of 2021, some San Diego moms celebrated their own arrivals: little bundles of joy born just after midnight.
At the Palomar de Kaiser Permanente medical center in Escondido, doctors gave birth to a baby at 12:01 p.m. The baby, believed to be named Tatum Faith Perry, is believed to be the first baby in San Diego County in 2021, a Kaiser Permanente spokesman told NBC on Wednesday.
Baby Tatum was born to parents Wendi and Kevin Tatum. He already has a No. 1 fan on his older brother, Ryder.
“He’s obsessed,” Wendi Perry said. “It’s kind of a nerve that goes from one to two, and seeing how obsessed he is with it makes it a lot easier. He’s not afraid of it, which is nice.”
“The best big brother in history,” the father said.
Tatum Faith Perry with parents Wendi and Kevin, and older brother Ryder.
Perry’s friends and family thought it was pretty exciting. Tatum was the first baby of the new decade in San Diego. Many asked the family when they would be on TV so they could watch or record the segment.
Meanwhile, at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, local mother Halondra Uriostegui gave birth at 12:02 on New Year’s Day to Mia Perez Uriostegui.
Baby Mia weighed 8 pounds and 4 ounces.
A hospital spokesman told NBC 7 that Mia and her mother are doing well.
Fourteen minutes later, at 12:16 a.m., another mother had her baby at La Jolla Memorial Scripps Hospital, a Scripp Health spokesman told NBC 7.
Just after 12:30 p.m., Scripps scored another: a baby debuting at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista.
The girl is named Alice Grace, born to father Aldo Lopez, 18, and Sarah Rodriguez, 20, and her sympathy cannot really be quantified. In terms of her measurements, baby Alice was 6 pounds, 6 ounces and 18 inches long. Lopez and Rodriguez said their daughter’s middle name was inspired by her Christian faith.
Baby Alice Grace and parents Aldo Lopez and Sarah Rodriguez.
Alice was almost a 2020 baby.
Rodriguez told NBC 7 that she checked into Scripps Mercy after waking up with heavy contractions on New Year’s Eve morning, but hospital staff sent her home because she was not dilatava.
After a family meal of tamales and pork chops, Rodriguez’s contractions began to strengthen.
“The contractions were more and more constant and were very, very painful. I could barely walk, ”the first mother said.
At that time, Rodriguez’s grandmother knew it was time, so they returned to the hospital around 9:30 p.m., New Year’s Eve. Hospital staff told parents there was a possibility that little Alice could be the first baby of 2021.
“It didn’t matter,” Rodriguez said. “At the time, it was too painful to find out.”
While it’s fun to follow up at home, Alicia’s birth moment didn’t mean much to her excited new parents.
“As long as she’s healthy and happy, she’s fine. I’m fine with that. It may be the sixth, the hundredth. I really don’t care, ”Rodriguez said.
“I’m very happy and grateful to have her here,” Lopez said. “I’m so grateful he came out healthy.”
At another Kaiser Permanente facility, another New Year’s baby arrived shortly after 1 p.m.
And with that, we have a whole new set of San Diegans. Happy New Year.