Joly Soto-Hojnowski thought her queasy feeling might
have come from the chicken cordon bleu she ate on New Year's Eve. She never
dreamed she was in labor already. Her baby was not due for several weeks. But
when her mother suggested she head to PAH, Soto-Hojnowski and husband John
Hojnowski, grabbed the maternity bag they had packed a few days before and set
off. Mom was right. Less than a half-hour after they had checked in, Jolyna
Hojnowski arrived at 12:23 am, weighing 6.9 pounds and 19 3/4 inches long.
There was not even time to fill out the proper hospital forms. "It was
literally push time," said Soto-Hojnowski. The couple, from the Logan
section of Philadelphia, had planned to spend New Year's Eve watching fireworks
at Penn's Landing, but their daughter had pyrotechnics of a different kind in
store for them. The
Philadelphia Inquirer, 6ABC, and CBS3
ran stories about Jolyna and other New Year’s babies.
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