Twins are 2023’s last and 2024’s first Connecticut births

Yale New Haven Hospital closed out 2023 and rang in 2024 with the birth of a brother and sister –– twins, who have different birthdays and birth years.

Born at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, baby boy Seven Morris was the last recorded birth of 2023 at YNHH, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Three minutes later, Seven’s sister, YNHH’s first baby of the New Year, Souli Morris, entered the world at 12:02 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024.

Both babies weigh six pounds, nine ounces.

On Monday afternoon, a YNHH spokesperson said the parents, Mykel and Aliyah Kiyomi Morris of Hamden, and their twin bundles of joy are “doing great and getting some well-deserved rest.”

Baby on board at UConn Health

At UConn Health, the first baby of the year was born in the parking lot of UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

Juliana, a baby girl, could not wait to enter into 2024 –– according to UConn Today, her “Dad-to-be pulled up his car ‘right in front’ of the door to UConn John Dempsey Hospital’s Emergency Department … But, in the time it took Dad to run around the car and open the passenger door, Mom’s water broke and the baby was born” at 12:35 a.m.

Baby Juliana, UConn Health’s “newest Husky” weighs 8 pounds and measures 20 and a half inches long.

UConn Health said Juliana’s parents, who are from Prospect, are “still recovering from their very exciting start to 2024,” as her big sister looks forward to meeting the new baby.

A ‘New Year’s blessing’ at Hartford Hospital

Hartford Hospital’s first baby of 2024 was a baby boy born at 12:06 a.m.

“He’s our New Year’s blessing!” parents Murielle and Sterling Gatewood of Enfield said in a Hartford Hospital Facebook post.

Baby Gatewood weighs 7 pounds, 9 ounces and measures 20 inches long.