January 2, 2012 FIRST BABY OF 2012

CaliforniaMama • Jan 2, 2012 11:18 am
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Meet Zavier Geale and his parents. He is the first baby born in 2012.

Zavier, who arrived nine days early weighing 3.09 kilograms, was born at 12.08am at North Shore Private Hospital, just four minutes before another baby boy who arrived at 12.12am at Manly District Hospital.
richlevy • Jan 2, 2012 11:35 am
CaliforniaMama;784537 wrote:
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Meet Zavier Geale and his parents. He is the first baby born in 2012.
Is it just me or does the kid look a little like Yoda?


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Sundae • Jan 2, 2012 11:41 am
Yay for the Cellar being global!
The Aussies do get a head-start though.

Perhaps we could encourage the reporting to be the last person dying...?
Britain probably still wouldn't win, but we'd have a little more hope?

Oh, what am I saying?
We've got the Olympics this year.
Default Adonis DNA!
Griff • Jan 2, 2012 1:05 pm
Our local first baby, for the second year running, is likely landing in a less than ideal situation. Child #3 for a 21 year old Mom...
footfootfoot • Jan 2, 2012 1:14 pm
You ask, What is my policy? I will say; “It is to eat, sleep, cry, and poop, by sea, land and air, with all my might and with all the strength that God can give me: to eat, sleep, cry, and poop against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is my policy.” You ask, What is my aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Griff • Jan 2, 2012 1:18 pm
Stormageddon Dark Lord of All!
infinite monkey • Jan 2, 2012 1:47 pm
Griff;784577 wrote:
Our local first baby, for the second year running, is likely landing in a less than ideal situation. Child #3 for a 21 year old Mom...


That seems to happen here too.

And I think most babies look pretty much the same. That one's cute, though. He doesn't have that giant round head thing going on. I hate giant round heads. Except for Charlie Brown.
Trilby • Jan 3, 2012 7:52 am
Wait.

Xavier with a Z?!
footfootfoot • Jan 3, 2012 10:39 am
They're from Indiana originally.
CaliforniaMama • Jan 3, 2012 10:49 am
Brianna;784810 wrote:
Wait.

Xavier with a Z?!


I guess he is Z-avier as opposed to EX-avier.
Pete Zicato • Jan 3, 2012 2:48 pm
I bet he's not really. I bet he's just the first born in a hospital in NZ. Looking at the IDL, it looks like Tonga, Samoa, and the Line Islands all might have a better shot at first baby.
glatt • Jan 3, 2012 2:56 pm
More babies being born per hour in New Zealand because it's got a much higher population than those tiny islands.
Pete Zicato • Jan 3, 2012 2:57 pm
glatt;784938 wrote:
More babies being born per hour in New Zealand because it's got a much higher population than those tiny islands.

Maybe. But I bet they didn't check those other places before proclaiming themselves the winnah.
HungLikeJesus • Jan 3, 2012 9:10 pm
Pete Zicato;784936 wrote:
I bet he's not really. I bet he's just the first born in a hospital in NZ. Looking at the IDL, it looks like Tonga, Samoa, and the Line Islands all might have a better shot at first baby.


That's why Samoa just changed time zones, and skipped December 30th.
ZenGum • Jan 4, 2012 6:45 am
Err, guys, the link is from the Sydney Morning Herald. You know, Sydney, Australia, home of the North Shore Private Hospital as well as the nearby Manly hospital, that Sydney? ;)

It's almost certain that some kiwi kid got in first. I'm less sure about the pacific islands, they have low populations and might not have that many babies born each day.

Now, recipes...
DanaC • Jan 4, 2012 7:46 am
Griff;784584 wrote:
Stormageddon Dark Lord of All!


I only just saw this. Excellent Who reference! I approve.
glatt • Jan 4, 2012 8:39 am
ZenGum;785028 wrote:
Err, guys, the link is from the Sydney Morning Herald.


You don't expect me to read the link do you? I was just responding to PZ's comment about it being NZ. :blush:
infinite monkey • Jan 4, 2012 8:43 am
Those aussies get really upset when you mix them up with kiwis. It'd be like me calling you Canadian, glatt. ;)
footfootfoot • Jan 4, 2012 8:48 am
Hey welcome back Zen. You're needed over in mental nuts.