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New Babies Welcomed In The New Year

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By KEVIN WIATROWSKI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 2, 2009

NEW PORT RICHEY - Crystal Rusaw had scheduled a Jan. 9 Caesarean delivery for her second child, but Pasco County's first baby of 2009 had other ideas.
Antonio Larry Rusaw waited until everyone in his family had gone to bed before starting his way into the world. His mother's water broke about 1:30 a.m. Thursday shortly after she had put her year-old daughter, Jasmine, to bed.
"I had just laid down," Crystal Rusaw said Thursday afternoon as she recovered in her room at Community Hospital in New Port Richey.
Rusaw was spending the night at her mother's house when she went into labor. Family members gave her an early morning ride to the hospital for Antonio's 8:08 a.m. birth.
Crystal Rusaw dozed in her bed New Year's Day while her newborn son did the same in a basinet nearby. Crystal's sister and brother-in-law, Tiffany and Michael Zullo, recovered enough from ringing in the new year to the work the phones from Crystal's hospital room.
"This is the first boy in the family since my brother," said Tiffany, 22, who has three daughters of her own. She said her 19-year-old brother will add another girl to the growing family in the spring.
Asked how she felt having her baby born on such a momentous day, Crystal Rusaw smiled tiredly.
"It's nice," she said.
Close behind Antonio Larry Rusaw, Pasco's second baby of 2009, a girl, was born at 9:29 a.m. at Florida Hospital Zephyrhills. Martha YarethziBartolón Arguello was born to Ingris Arguello and Raymundo Bartolón Soto of Dade City. She weighed 6 pounds and 12 ounces and measured 19 inches in length.

Reporter Kevin Wiatrowski can be reached at (813) 948-4201 or kwiatrowski@tampatrib.com.

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