New parents across Mumbai are celebrating the New Year with the arrival of their bundles of joy on the magical date <table style="width: 134px; height: 240px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="134" align="left" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/jan/baby.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr> <tr> <td> (Extreme top) One of the 1.1.11 newborns at Cama Hospital. (Above) The baby delivered at 1 am on January 1 at a maternity clinic in Walkeshwar. Pics/ Santosh Nagwekar</td></tr></tbody></table>As the city celebrated the first day of 2011 yesterday, some lucky parents celebrated the arrival of their bundles of joy. Even as gynaecologists in the city were flooded with requests from moms-to-be for 12 pm deliveries, some went into labour naturally and gifted the city numero uno babies. In fact, many gynaecologists were in operation theatres instead of parties on New Year's eve to help deliver such muhurat babies. Dr Anita Soni, senior gynaecologist at at Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital in Powai, said, "Women due for delivery around this period had requested a C-section on 1.1.11. We had scheduled four surgeries, but two of the babies were born just before midnight. The other two were on time and healthy." In fact, one of the newborns was born exactly at 1 pm in the afternoon, making her birth date (1.1.11) and time (1 pm) a memorable one. "Her mother joked that she will name her child numero uno," said Dr Soni, who herself was born on August 8 -- a lucky number according to the Chinese calendar. "Chinese restaurants offered me discounts when I celebrated my birthday on 8.8.88. I'm sure these children too will enjoy the uniqueness attached to their birth date," she said. The Walkeshwar-based Sawants too welcomed a baby born with the same happy co-ordinates, albeit 12 hours prior. Said the baby's overjoyed father Milind Sawant, "I had taken my wife to the clinic for a routine check-up and the doctors admitted her in the ward right then. She delivered a healthy baby boy at exactly at 1 o'clock in the night. We had planned to name him Shakti but now we're thinking of calling him Pratham." The same joy echoed through a Kalyan maternity hospital where Kavita Tripathi, a mother of two, delivered a baby boy at 7.15 am. "It's a special day, because I celebrate my birthday on January 1 too. What better gift could I ask for on my birthday?" said an ecstatic Tripathi to Sunday Mid Day. Meanwhile, a baby girl was born at 6.50 am at Cama &amp; Albless Hospital in Dhobi Talao. Sir JJ Hospital's gynaecology department had two successful deliveries; a baby boy was born at 9.35 am and a girl was delivered at 1.50 pm. Said Dr Rekha Daver, who heads the gynaecology department at JJ Hospital in Byculla, "Moms-to-be in public hospitals are usually not date-conscious. So, we don't get requests for muhurat babies nor do we oblige such requests. We let nature take its own course."

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