Posted on 01/02/2007 3:49:53 PM PST by buccaneer81
Early delivery is first of new year Family welcomes 2007, baby boy after move to Columbus Tuesday, January 02, 2007 Encarnacion Pyle THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
It could have been coincidence, but Maria Naranjo Rodriguez likes to think that if she hadn’t eaten one of her motherin-law’s famously hot tamales on New Year’s Eve, she might never have gone into labor.
And if she hadn’t started having contractions at 7:30 p.m., she might never have given birth to Franklin County’s first baby of the new year.
"I had just taken a bite when my water broke," she said yesterday from her bed at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s hospital in Westerville while cradling her new son, Miguel Angel Naranjo.
"We couldn’t have planned it any better. Who would have thought: a new baby, a new year and a new life? "
She was mesmerized by little Miguel’s perfect smile as she ran her finger over his tiny lips.
"We were so afraid he would have a cleft lip," she said. "But he’s absolutely beautiful."
That fear had prompted Rodriguez, 35, and her husband, Serafin Cortez Torres, 25, to leave Michoacan, Mexico, for Columbus four months ago.
"My husband was born with a cleft palate," Rodriguez said through an interpreter. "So was his daughter from a previous relationship. And even his brother has a child with the same condition."
By coming to the United States, they felt assured that their baby would receive the best medical care.
"Thanks be to God he doesn’t have the defect," she said in Spanish while making the sign of the cross. "Being the first baby of 2007 must be good luck."
Rodriguez said her life has been like a fairy tale since meeting her husband last February. She noticed him picking avocados on a neighbor’s farm. Though she was intimidated by his boyish looks, she asked him out. After a 22-day courtship, they married on March 20.
"He’s a little younger than I am," she said. "But it’s the real thing. He loves me. I love him. And we both treat each other with respect."
Since moving to the North Side, Torres has worked nights cleaning a store. Rodriguez had planned to work, too, but broke both her ankles shortly before leaving Mexico.
Torres took the day off — his first — to help with the baby’s birth. His wife said he cried when Miguel sucked in his first breath and wailed his arrival. The baby, delivered by Caesarean section, weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces.
The nurses at St. Ann’s suspected that Miguel might be the year’s first baby when he was born at 12:36 a.m. but called other hospitals to be sure.
"It was so exciting. Maria was the first to ring in the year," said nurse Becky Chatel.
The county’s second baby of 2007 — also a boy — was born at St. Ann’s at 1:10 a.m.
"Delivering babies, that’s our hallmark," Chatel said. "Every year, we deliver between 4,000 and 6,000."
With a Jan. 7 due date, Rodriguez didn’t expect to give birth to a holiday baby. But she suspected that he might come early when she started having intermittent contractions the day after Christmas.
"Just a few days ago, I was depressed," she said. "We don’t have lots of material things to give this little guy, but we’re filled with love and blessed by such a wonderful honor."
epyle@dispatch.com
I ain't the one prclaiming doom and gloom over the birth of a baby, you are.
The gloom and doom is over the fact that his parents are here ripping us off. You can dodge all you want, Dane. You're one of them. Too bad the coyotes got your parents here.
And you know how they are ripping us off.
Oops, I forgot they have Spanish surnames and automatically to you they are ripping us off.
JMO, your mentality is akin to 30's nazi thinking of those with a Jewish surname.
"Why do the baby, mother, and father all have different last names?
It's those wonderful FAMILY VALUES Dane ravs about....
Hispanic Family Values?
Heather Mac Donald
Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass.
Unless the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of decades does not bode well for American social stability. Hispanic immigrants bring near–Third World levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were once thought to be First World levels of illegitimacy. (In fact, family breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here.) Nearly half of the children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wedlock, a proportion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down. Given what psychologists and sociologists now know about the much higher likelihood of social pathology among those who grow up in single-mother households, the Hispanic baby boom is certain to produce more juvenile delinquents, more school failure, more welfare use, and more teen pregnancy in the future.
The government social-services sector has already latched onto this new client base; as the Hispanic population expands, so will the demands for a larger welfare state. Since conservative open-borders advocates have yet to acknowledge the facts of Hispanic family breakdown, there is no way to know what their solution to it is. But they had better come up with one quickly, because the problem is here—and growing.
The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate—even more than unbounded levels of immigration—will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades. By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by mid-century, twice the current ratio. In states such as California and Texas, Hispanics will be in the clear majority. Nationally, whites will drop from near 70 percent of the total population in 2000 to just half by 2050. Hispanics will account for 46 percent of the nation’s added population over the next two decades, the Pew Hispanic Center reports......
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html
I don't think I am one with the problem.
I can't help it if you have a problem with a father working an honest job and diss the birth of his child.
Like I stated earlier in this thread, I guess you also would have preferred the nancy pelosi final solution of sucking the brains out of the child from the womb.
Are you paying their medical bills, Dane? If not, I'm sure they're good for it, two broken ankles and the job cleaning tha store overnight ought to cover it, right?
No kidding! And WE, the taxpayer's, just paid for them to have a child in AMERICA! Bet on it!
Arguing with Dane is a waste of time. He only cares about pushing his LaRaza crusade.
How he's survived here for over eight years speaks to our tolerance for pure idiocy.
"But do you really think EVERYONE from Mexico is illegal? I know many LEGAL immigrants from Mexico."
Yeah, one of my co-workers is legal. But most of his family he helped sneak in isn't. Oh, he's still very loyal to Mexico too.
"But do you really think EVERYONE from Mexico is illegal? I know many LEGAL immigrants from Mexico."
Uhhh...they left Mexico FOUR MONTHS AGO. If they have papers, they bought them from Jose on the street corner, because no one gets papers from our Immigration Service in four months. No, they hightailed it to the good old USA so that we tax drones could pay for the birth of their baby and any possible birth defects. Glad to see the rest of the country gets to pay for Mexicans and their babies now too, not just the border states that have suffered this financial drain for the past 40 years.
It would appear that the man already has a wife. This one is his latest, probably has been deported before, but no one will ever check.
Since you regularly post about having sex with children I don't put much stock in what you say.
P.S....If you can show me where I said I had a problem with a father working an honest job or where I dissed the birth of his child I will provide proof of your pedophilia.
P.S....If you can show me where I said I had a problem with a father working an honest job or where I dissed the birth of his child I will provide proof of your pedophilia.
You are totally deranged, but what the hey that is one expects from a tom tancredo supporter.
BTW...Do you remember when Tom Tancredo said "A nation without borders is not a nation."?
Neither do I. I remember when Ronald Reagan said it.
Why should I challenge a deranged flame thrower as yourself. The proof that all you tancredo supporters are deranged flame throwers are my replies on FR.
You tancredo guys when losing an arguement resort to the old liberal press trick "of how many times do you beat your wife".
Dane:
What part of ILLEGAL do you NOT understand?
If I entered your home without permission, and helped myself to the family medicine cabinet, is that acceptable?
Expecting a Troll-like reply,
OLA
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