Updated 1/1/2023 7:49 PM
Bailey Coronado had 1 past accidental for a quiescent nighttime astatine home.
The expectant ma invited a fewer friends implicit and chose to observe New Year's Eve with CNN's Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.
"We didn't ticker the countdown. We watched the New York one, but past we ended up going to bed," Coronado said. "We were tired."
But a fewer hours aft midnight, Coronado and her boyfriend, Kobe Lear, would commencement different countdown -- the clip betwixt contractions.
The Fox Lake mates welcomed their "first blessing of the year": a 7-pound, 3-ounce babe lad calved astatine 5:12 a.m. Sunday astatine Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital.
As 1 of the archetypal babies of 2023, Devin Lear was showered with attraction and media coverage. He arrived 2 weeks earlier than his owed day with camera-ready, acheronian hair, conscionable similar his mom's. All successful all, not atrocious for your archetypal time connected earth.
"We're some steadfast and doing well," Devin's ma said.
Other suburban hospitals were engaged greeting New Year's babies and aboriginal members of the precocious schoolhouse people of 2041.
At 12:37 a.m., Lopa and Aashish Vyas became parents of a 6-pound, 10-ounce bundle of joy, Aalora, astatine Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital successful Downers Grove.
At 12:45 p.m., the archetypal baby, a boy, was calved astatine Northshore Evanston Hospital. He is the archetypal kid of Faraz and Rooha Uddin. The Palatine parents person not yet picked retired a name.
Mundelein parents Kevin and Selin Hernandez started the caller twelvemonth with their babe boy, Andrew, calved astatine 2:07 a.m. astatine Northwest Community Hospital successful Arlington Heights.
Lilliana Xiomara Reza Sarmiento came into the satellite astatine 2:38 a.m. astatine Advocate Sherman Hospital successful Elgin. The girl of ma Monserrat Sarmiento and dada Brayan Reza checked successful astatine 6 pounds 3 ounces,
At 11:52 a.m., Ana and Jonathon Flores had their archetypal child, a 7-pound, 7-ounce boy, astatine Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital successful Geneva. His parents person not yet selected a name.
Sofia Sanchez Olmedo was calved astatine 2:06 p.m. to parents Theodora Olmedo and Jose Sanchez of Hebron astatine Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital. Sofia is their eighth child.
Coronado's increasing household received a acquisition handbasket donated by Lake Forest Hospital Patient & Family Advisory Council and filled with diapers, wipes, blankets, newborn outfits, toys and stuffed animals. Devin seemed oblivious to the fanfare.
"He is sleeping peacefully. He has been since this morning, which has been precise nice," said Coronado, who was stealing "cat naps present and there."
Sleep volition beryllium a luxury for the arrogant parents. Devin has a large sister, 1-year-old Gianna. The siblings were calved conscionable 13 months apart.
"I'm conscionable truthful excited to instrumentality him location to my daughter, and spot my daughter's absorption and spot however she's going to act," Coronado said, "and past rise a small babe lad and a small girl."
As a ma of 2 small ones, Coronado is mounting realistic New Year's resolutions.
"It's going to beryllium busy," she said, "so conscionable effort not to beryllium overwhelmed."
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