By Jeremy Walsh and Ivan Pereira
The first, Kamiyah Alina Barrow, was born to Laurelton residents Kamille Lord and Dexter Barrow at New York Hospital Queens in Flushing. Kamiyah was 21 inches long and weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces when she was born right after the stroke of midnight Jan. 1.
Lord was surprised by the punctuality of her first child.
“Around 10:50, when I started to push, we had the TV on, and at that time I wasn't paying attention to the TV, I was paying attention to the doctor,” she said, noting the Times Square celebrations were commencing as Kamiyah was born.
The second infant of 2008 was born at 12:01 a.m. at Elmhurst Hospital Center. Isabella Sophia Sears, fourth child of Oakland Gardens residents Yvonne Daza and Stuart Sears, was 20.6 inches long and weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces.
She is the granddaughter of City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D-Jackson Heights)
Helen Sears' staff said the family had no inkling that Isabella would be born at the turn of the new year.
