As the camera flashed in Celeste Corona
’s eyes, she laid quietly in her mother’s arms. She didn’t
smile, and she didn’t cry.
As the camera flashed in Celeste Corona’s eyes, she laid quietly in her mother’s arms. She didn’t smile, and she didn’t cry.
The 7-pound, 3-ounce, 19-inch-long newborn didn’t seem to understand what the big deal was. But her birth was a big deal: She was the South Valley’s first baby of the new year.
Inside their room at St. Louise Regional Medical Center, 9400 No Name Uno, a proud father, Miguel Corona, sat next to his wife Estela on the hospital bed with his 4-year-old son Humberto on his lap and Celeste in her mother’s arms.
“This is number six,” said Miguel, who is a construction worker and has lived with Estela in Morgan Hill for 18 years. “This is the third one born at St. Louise.”
The couple, who will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary in February, now have two sons and four daughters – Miguel Angel, 15; Maribel, 14; Veronica Lizbet, 9; Maria Vanessa, 7; Humberto, 4; and now Celeste has been brought into the family.
“Will we be seeing you again?” asked Vivian Smith, director of public and community relations at St. Louise.
“I don’t know,” Miguel laughed. “Nobody knows.”
Estela checked into St. Louise at about 1:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day and delivered Celeste at 7:20 a.m. There was no hurry in being the first to deliver at the hospital – while other babies were born Tuesday and Thursday, Celeste was the only baby born Jan. 1, 2003, at St. Louise.
“Oh yeah, this is what we hoped for,” said Miguel of having the area’s first baby of the new year. Estela was due Dec. 30 but Celeste apparently wasn’t ready to come out until 2002 had safely gone by.
“Everything is very nice,” Miguel said Thursday of the delivery. “I think we will go (home) today.”
