CEDAR CITY — Individuals and families celebrate the New Year with parties, proposals and kisses. Maria and Luis Cuevas rang in 2024 with the birth of their baby boy.
Marco Cuevas was born at the Intermountain Cedar City Hospital at 10:49 a.m., Jan. 2 — the facility’s first birth in 2024. He weighs 7 pounds, 9 ounces and is 19 inches long, reports Brad Gillman, media relations lead for Intermountain Healthcare’s hospitals in St. George and Cedar City.
Charge nurse Reggie Bulloch told Gillman she noticed how excited the parents and extended family were, particularly Marco’s older brother Luis Jr., who was reportedly smiling and patting the new baby.
“It is pretty exciting,” Maria Cuevas said, giggling. “He was supposed to be born on the 9th but decided to come a week early. He must have wanted to be the New Year’s baby.”
In 2023, there were 776 births at Cedar City Hospital and 2,750 at St. George Regional Hospital, where another New Year baby was welcomed. The 7-pound, 13-ounce boy was born at 12:48 a.m., Jan. 1, and the child’s parents have chosen to welcome their new addition in private.
No births have yet been reported at the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch for 2024.
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Maria and Luis Cuevas welcomed Marco as 2024's first baby born in the Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah, Jan. 2, 2024 | Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare, Cedar City News Maria and Luis Cuevas welcomed Marco as 2024's first baby born in the Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah, Jan. 2, 2024 | Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare, Cedar City News Maria and Luis Cuevas welcomed Marco as 2024's first baby born in the Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah, Jan. 2, 2024 | Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare, Cedar City News Maria and Luis Cuevas welcomed Marco as 2024's first baby born in the Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah, Jan. 2, 2024 | Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare, Cedar City News Maria and Luis Cuevas welcomed Marco as 2024's first baby born in the Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah, Jan. 2, 2024 | Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare, Cedar City News
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