One of Providence St. Peter’s Own Has First Baby of the Year

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The first baby of 2023 born at Providence St. Peter Hospital came into the world at 11:49 a.m. Miguel Inigo Marrero weighed 7.44 pounds and was 19 inches long.

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The first baby of 2023 born at Providence St. Peter Hospital was Miguel Inigo Marrero, son of Janine April Dumlao-Marrero and Jan Marrero. Photo courtesy: Providence

Miguel is the son of Janine April Dumlao-Marrero and Jan Marrero of Lacey, who have been married for a year. The couple, both 32, are nurses originally from the Philippines. They were travel nurses based in Atlanta for a several years until their close friends moved to the Olympia area. Janine and Jan each then took travel rotations to Olympia and decided to move here full-time, Janine joining the operating room staff at St. Peter earlier this year and Jan working in the emergency department at Multicare.

“We love it here and when our friends moved here, we decided to follow them because they are like family,” Janine said.

Janine and Jan first found out Miguel’s gender when they were blindfolded by friends and given squirt guns filled with colored water. After shooting each other with blue, they began planning for a boy.

“Before that, I had a feeling it was going to be a girl,” Janine said. “But after we found out, we were able to start picking colors and things.”

As a Christian family, the baby’s name was chosen for its meaning: Miguel = God like and Inigo = Little love. The baby will go by “Mee-go.” Eventually, the couple hopes to have a total of three children. “And since our first is a boy, we hope to have at least one girl too,” Janine said.

The family was given a goodie-package put together by the caregivers in the St. Peter Family Birth Center.

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The second baby of the year was a girl, Lilyana, the daughter of Lydia Sullivan of Lacey. Photo courtesy: Providence

The second baby of the year came just 16 minutes later at 12:05 p.m. A girl, Lilyana, was born to Lydia Sullivan of Lacey. Baby Lilyana was given a goodie-package put together by the Davis family, who have been bringing a “first girl of the year” package since their daughter was the first baby of the year at St. Peter Hospital 14 years ago.

There were 2,132 babies born at Providence St. Peter Hospital in 2022; 2,156 in 2021; 2,030 in 2020; 2,201 in 2019; and 2,297 in 2018.

For more information about the Providence St. Peter Family Birth Center, see this video.

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