Margot Megan Slade

Dec. 31, 2006

8 a.m.

8 pounds, 6 ounces

New York Downtown Hospital

Husband-and-wife architects James and Hayes Slade, both 40, have built quite a family in the 18 years they’ve been married: Ana, 14, Santi, 13, Stella, 2, and now this beautiful little bald, pinkish addition, the news of which prompted cheers and hugs Read More

Sam Joseph Zarou II

9:54 a.m.

7 pounds, 6 ounces

New York Presbyterian

Julie Zarou, 31, who until last spring was the director of special events at the Institute of Culinary Education, has cooked up a beautiful, blond, fair-skinned and big-eared son with her husband of five years, Sam Zarou, 34, a trader with Tullett Prebon. In an apparent Read More

Julian Charles Planck

Oct. 24, 2006

9:55 p.m.

6 pounds, 13 ounces

Pascack Valley Hospital

Gourmet grommet! Nina Planck, 35, foxy founder of farmers’ markets in New York, Washington, D.C., and London, wanted to have a home birth in her Stuyvesant Town one-bedroom, but wound up delivering this brown-eyed, brown-haired sprout by C-section in New Jersey after 36 Read More

Bess Rimona Harris Adelson

Oct. 28, 2006

6:44 p.m.

7 pounds, 4 ounces

St. Vincent’s Hospital

Such naches! David Adelson, 36, a rabbi at East End Temple near Stuyvesant Town, has welcomed this beautiful little blessing with his wife of three years, Lynn Harris, 37, a Park Slope writer, whose water broke unexpectedly one rainy morning. “It was due Read More

Francesca Haley Howard

Oct. 21, 2006

11:03 p.m.

6 pounds, 8 ounces

Lenox Hill Hospital

Erica Lumière knew she’d be pushing it (no pun intended) by attending a centennial weekend gala at her alma mater, Kent, the Connecticut boarding school, three weeks before a scheduled C-section. Sure enough, her water broke at the start of a football game. Read More

Cy Sherman Schmeling Golanski

Oct 26, 2006

2:39 a.m.

7 pounds, 8 ounces

St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Birthing Center

When Cobble Hill resident Gina Schmeling went into labor with her firstborn, Creeley, now 3, she inspired warfare (or a fare war, as the case may be) between two cabbies. “Both drivers showed up and fought on our street about who would Read More

Hugo Norbert Holland

Oct. 28, 2006

7:40 a.m.

6 pounds, 13 ounces

New York University Hospital

It’s a writ of baby-us corpus! Court TV copy editor Susie Felber endured 14 hours of unproductive labor before opting for a C-section. “At this point, I don’t care if you take him out of my nostril,” Ms. Felber, who is also Read More

Alana Michelle Bendayan

Sept. 27, 2006

6:46 a.m.

7 pounds, 6 ounces

New York–Presbyterian Hospital

Bronx bombshell-ette! The Observer’s own David Bendayan, 29, senior account executive of classified sales, has us totally sold on this hazel-eyed, black-haired little beauty, his first baby with fiancée Ida Ramos, 32, a registered nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital in da Bronx (where Read More

Madelyn Molly Turner

Oct. 21, 2006

5:56 a.m.

6 pounds, 12 ounces

St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital

It’s a … CosmoGirl! The teen magazine’s deputy editor, Chandra Czape Turner, marked the onset of contractions by heading to the office, having breakfast at Norma’s and getting an eyebrow wax. “The whole time I was doubting myself,” said Ms. Turner, 32, also Read More

Aiden Christopher Clarke

July 15, 2006

10:54 a.m.

6 pounds, 15 ounces

Roosevelt Hospital

For Sarit Ahiel-Clarke, a producer at Northern Lights Post, a post-production company in Chelsea, pregnancy was a snap—“I could walk around with this baby inside and take the subway and do this and that,” she said—but the post-production … yikes! “Once he was out, Read More