New Year, New Baby: 10-Pound Girl is North Jersey's First of 2015

She tried to make it out before the Times Square ball dropped, but was just a few minutes late.

The first baby born at Morristown Medical Center in 2015, a girl, arrived at 12:09 a.m. Thursday to the delight of her parents, according to Atlantic Health System spokeswoman Anna Scalora.

The baby girl, yet to be named, is the first child for mommy Tamura Gidado and daddy Niyi Afolabi of North Bergen, and boy did this little girl make an impact.

Weighing in at 10 pounds and 10 ounces and stretching to 22 and three-quarters inches, the baby girl may contend for one of Morris County’s largest before the year is through.

Gidado and Afolabi practice the religion of Yorumba, with a tradition to not name the child for the first seven days, Scalora said.

Mom, dad and baby are all doing well as they recover at Morristown before they begin the new year at home.

Photos Courtesy Atlantic Health System.