Baby Oliver Born at Health First’s Cape Canaveral Hospital is Brevard’s First Birth of 2023

WATCH: Special Delivery! – Health First Welcomes Six New Year Babies

Health First New Year Baby from Health First on Vimeo: Meet baby Johnny. This small bundle of joy was born at Holmes Regional Medical Center at 1:06 a.m. and weighs 10 pounds and measures at 21.25 inches. (Health First video)

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – At 12:17 a.m., while most of us were still in the early stages of celebrating the new year, baby Oliver took his first breath at Cape Canaveral Hospital – becoming Brevard County’s (and Health First’s) first baby of 2023.

And he wasn’t the only baby to make an early morning debut. There are more – many more.

A total of six babies were born at Health First as Holmes Regional Medical Center and Cape Canaveral Hospital welcomed three at each location.

Little Oliver is the first child to parents Josh and Ashley and weighs 7lbs, 7-ounces and measures at 19.5 inches.

■ Meet baby Johnny. This small bundle of joy was born at Holmes Regional Medical Center at 1:06 a.m. and weighs 10 pounds and measures at 21.25 inches.

His mom, Mary, says she initially thought he would arrive around Christmas. But baby Johnny had other plans.

“By the time New Year’s came, I really wasn’t thinking about it but then on New Year’s Eve, my water broke, I went into labor, we came to Holmes Regional Medical Center, and we were thinking is it going to be a 2022 or a 2023 baby,” she said.

■ Baby Ruben was born at Holmes Regional Medical Center at 2:01 a.m. and weighs 6 pounds, 1-ounce and measures at 19.25 inches.

■ Baby Jakai was born at Holmes Regional Medical Center at 5:31 a.m. and weighs 9 pounds, 3.8-ounces and measures at 21 inches.

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