First Bay Area baby born in 2023 appears to be in Walnut Creek
WALNUT CREEK -- The first baby born in the Bay Area in 2023 appears to be a baby boy born at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center just after midnight on Jan. 1, 2023.
Kaiser Permanente spokesman Karl Sonkin said the boy was born at 12:06 a.m.
The baby, Ezekiel Laviolette, is in good health and is the first born to parents Eric and Allison Laviolette of Pleasant Hill, according to a Kaiser spokeswoman.
Sonkin said two other births occurred early in 2023 at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, with one baby born at 12:20 a.m. and another just after, at 12:21 a.m.
At least three other Bay Area babies were born in the first hour of the new year.
The first baby born at El Camino Health's Los Gatos hospital was Nylashae Nelson. She was born at 12:16 a.m. weighing seven pounds, eight ounces, and was 20 inches long. She and her mother, Tai Bass, 30, and father, Kirby Nelson, 31, are doing great, according to El Camino Health.
A baby was born at North Bay Center for Women's Health in Fairfield at 12:32 a.m. and a baby boy was delivered at 12:34 a.m. at Marin General Hospital, according to the charge nurses at both locations.