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Published on January 01, 2025
Bay Area Rings in 2025 With Birth of New Year's First Baby in San LeandroSource: Pixabay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

As the Bay Area welcomed the start of 2025, it also welcomed its newest residents, the first of whom was a baby girl born at midnight in San Leandro. Within the first hours of the new year, a handful of infants debuted, starting a new chapter for several families.

Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center saw this year’s apparent first Bay Area baby, a girl whose birth coincided with the New Year's celebratory tick of the clock. Reported by NBC Bay Area, she was delivered exactly at midnight. Following closely behind was a boy born three minutes later at John Muir Health in Walnut Creek, bringing joy to the new year barely moments after it had begun.

The celebration of life continued elsewhere in the Bay Area, according to NBC Bay Area, with births recorded at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center at 12:22 a.m., Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital at 12:58 a.m., Natividad Medical Center at 1:01 a.m., the Alta Bates Campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center at 1:34 a.m., and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford at 2:47 a.m., where a girl named Raina was born to first-time parents from Mountain View.

The new year’s first baby, born in San Leandro, was named Raelynn James, as KTVU disclosed. She weighed 8 pounds and was 18-1/2 inches long. The daughter of Sophia Greenwell and James Greenwell IV, Raelynn joins a household as the youngest of five sisters. The parents' elation was tangible, with Sophia stating to KTVU, "We’re beyond blessed. She’s perfect."