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
And how do you know this mother and father are helping themselves to your medicine cabinet, other than you basing it on their surnames.
I guess that's my "troll" reply.
LOL. This isn't rocket science Dane.
This punk abandoned his child with a single mom in Mexico. Legal human trash would have abandoned the welfare kid and single mom elsewhere the Uncle Sugar welfare state.
But even rocket science relies upon reasonable assumptions whenever facts are "unknown." An unknown here is the omission. Whenever politically correct journalists OMIT facts, it is reasonably to believe the facts were "too icky" to report.
Expecting another Troll-like reply,
OLA
How do you know....
That's like saying, "I know you are, but what am I."
Combine critical thinking skills with the reasonable adult standard.
Waters sufficiently chummed...
OLA
Thanks for the post. Obviously carrying the children to full term that Americans are unwilling to deliver. Hyperlink for the URL: http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070102/NEWS01/701020317/1006
Token "racist" and "hard working" lame-brain-leftist talking points are in the Pensacola comment section too.
Cheers,
OLA
Hey...I live less than a mile from St. Anns...are you both still in the area?
"But do you really think EVERYONE from Mexico is illegal?"
OBL tagline alert!
Groveport/Canal borderline, but planning on moving back to Hilliard by summer.
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And after all that, they brazenly talk to the media and allow themselves to be featured in a news story, bragging about it all. So much for the poor, oppressed illegals cowering in terror and living in the shadows in this mean, mean country.
It's kind of weird that the hospital is providing a 19 year-old (and possibly breastfeeding mom) home with a gift basket containing alcohol.
Saul's mother, Maria Del Carmen Rincon, 19, was in the throes of labor.
When the mother and son go home Wednesday, they will take a basket filled with gifts from nurses and hospital staff that contains, among other things, a big teddy bear, sparkling wine and champagne glasses.
Met in February, waded over (while pregnant) about August, and her last quote in the report is basically a request for free goodies from any bleeding heart reading the story.
Sounds to me like they planned it pretty damn well.
They aren't legal. They are illegal.
How do you know that?
I've seen this story repeated a hundred times over. Different medical problems but the jist is the same. They want to come here and mooch off of the American taxpayer.
Interesting how the wife doesn't take the husnband's last name. They probably aren't even married.
You're about as bright (and illegal-loving) as Dane.
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