*This story has been corrected based on new information provided by Stafford Hospital.
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Stafford Hospital Center welcomes the region’s first new baby of the year.
Officials there said a baby boy was born to Lisa McGill at 10:39 a.m. Victor and Veronica Nevarro of Quantico at 6:27 a.m. . The child was seven pounds, 14 10 ounces, and 19 20.5 inches long.
Other hospitals in the area were still waiting for expectant mothers to give birth about noon. Prince William Hospital said a birth at their campus was imminent.
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Who will be the first new baby born in the Potomac Communities in 2013? We simply don’t know yet.
Both hospitals in the area, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and Stafford Hospital Center, have are still waiting to welcome their New Year’s baby.
At Prince William Hospital in Manassas, two women are in labor but there is no baby yet, according to nurses there.
There are three people who are about to have babies at this hour at Stafford Hospital, and we’ve been instructed to check back within the hour to see who will be that hospital’s first new baby of 2013.
It’s a tradition at all area hospitals to mark the first birth of the New Year.
