New York Hospital Queens welcomed its first baby of 2011 at 12:01 a.m., a baby girl, Selina Wong, weighing 7 lbs, 12 oz., born to proud parents Ting Li and Richard Wong of Fresh Meadows, N.Y. This is the couple’s first child.
“It’s exciting,” says mother, Ting Li, who originally hails from South China. “And unbelievable, I never though I would have one of the first babies of the New Year.”