First Baby of 2009 Born At the Stroke Of Midnight

What are the odds? Right on the stroke of midnight, as fireworks lit up the Toronto sky to ring in 2009, the city's first baby of the year was born.

Baby Nyla Adrianna (pictured) came into the world at Toronto East General Hospital, oblivious to the celebrations going on around her.

"Twelve o'clock on the dot she came out.They did the countdown in our room," revealed new dad Paul Gonsalves. "As soon as she came out, everyone started cheering."

Mother Erica Dumont agreed.

"There was an audience in there as I was pushing."

But she managed to keep her composure throughout the entire delivery, which, relatively speaking, was a breeze. Nyla weighed in at 5 pounds, 14 ounces.

"They were surprised I was eight centimetres dilated when I came in because I was so calm. And I was just laughing. [Paul] was making me laugh."

It was something of a photo finish in the race for the title of first new year baby.

About two seconds later, Chantal and Roberto DiMarco became the proud parents of a healthy baby girl, 7-pound Milana Amelia, at the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga.

"I'm just glad she's healthy. That's all that matters, really," noted Roberto.

Chantal had been in labour for most of Wednesday, which also happened to be her 32nd birthday.

Baby number three was a little girl also born in Mississauga at Credit Valley Hospital.

And eight seconds into the new year, baby boy Martin popped out at North York General Hospital.