As Bay Space residents counted down the seconds till the brand new yr, the area’s first child made her means into the world.
Raelynn James Greenwell, born at 12 a.m. sharp on Jan. 1, seemed to be the Bay Space’s first new child in 2025.
Her mother and father, Sophia Greenwell and James Greenwell IV of Union Metropolis, welcomed their fifth daughter at Kaiser’s San Leandro Medical Middle. She weighed in at 8 kilos and measured 18 1/2 inches.
“She has chubby cheeks, blue eyes and blonde hair,” Sophia Greenwell mentioned about Raelynn James. “We’re beyond blessed. She’s perfect and looks like our youngest daughter. In fact, she reminds us of the little baby from Whoville.”
Sophia Greenwell, having arrived on the hospital at 2 p.m., thought her new daughter was going to be born on New Yr’s Eve. She mentioned she was actually stunned when Raelynn James made her entrance precisely at midnight — even all the way down to the second.
“I was excited because I really wanted the basket that they had and there was a gift card in it for Target,” she mentioned, referring to a present the hospital gave her for giving delivery to the primary child of 2025.
The basket additionally included child provides, a teddy bear and a little bit outfit for her child lady.
“I just want her to be healthy that’s all,” Sophia Greenwell mentioned of her hopes for her fifth daughter. “I just want to ring in the new year with positivity and everybody being healthy.”
The subsequent two New Yr’s Day infants within the Bay Space got here at 12:03 a.m. and 12:04 a.m. The primary little one was born at John Muir Well being’s Walnut Creek Medical Middle; no different particulars had been offered.
The second was a child boy weighing 6 kilos and 15.8 ounces and measuring 20 inches who was born at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.
Mother and father Shivangi and Vivek of Santa Clara, whose child boy doesn’t have a reputation but, mentioned in a press release that “midnight births are always special and exciting.”
“New Year’s Eve midnights take that excitement to another level,” the mother and father mentioned. “Such births remind us of godly appearances in human forms on Earth. With these precious thoughts in mind, we welcome our baby boy with the hope that he will be a source of kindness, righteousness, energy and strength to those around him.”
At Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, the primary child was born at 2:22 a.m. No different particulars had been offered.
At Lucile Packard Kids’s Hospital in Palo Alto, the primary child got here at 2:47 a.m. Ran Duan and Jerry Zhang of Mountain View welcomed their first little one — a daughter they named Rania Zhang. Rania can be the primary grandchild within the household.
“We are thrilled she’s our dragon baby,” Jerry Zhang mentioned, referring to the present Chinese language zodiac signal.
The dragon represents energy, energy, knowledge and luck, and her mother and father mentioned that having a toddler born within the Yr of the Dragon is a supply of satisfaction. The 2025 Chinese language New Yr is on Jan. 29, which is able to ring within the begin of the Yr of the Snake.
Regardless of being California’s second-largest county-owned well being system, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare didn’t welcome its first child of the yr till 8:28 a.m.
Child boy Nguyen, whose mother and father haven’t selected a reputation but, was born at Santa Clara Valley Medical Middle in San Jose and weighed in at 6 kilos, 14.8 ounces.
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