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Mom Metok Dolma and dad Dorjee Choetso, both of Queens, welcome baby girl Tenzin Choetso, born at Elmhurst Hospital on Wednesday one second after the new year began.
Three New Year’s babies born at or just after midnight made for a dramatic and happy beginning to 2014, and one of them has a blessed start in life — she was personally given a name by the Dalai Lama.
Metok Dolma, 31, a Tibetan-born small business owner from Woodside, Queens, gave birth to her healthy baby girl just one second after midnight at Elmhurst Hospital.
The beaming mom couldn’t contain her joy over her new daughter and the good tidings the girl’s birth signaled for 2014.
“It’s breathtaking, amazing, out of the ordinary,” said Dolma, who has another daughter, age 2, with her fiancé, Dorjee Choetso, a wine salesman. “I think this year is going to be a great one for every one of us.”
Dolma and Choetso came to the city in search of a better life about five years ago.
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Tenzin Choetso arrived a second after the New Year’s ball dropped, born to mother Metoka Dolma and father Dorjee Choetso.
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They met at a New Year’s Eve party in New York in 2008. “It’s very special night for us,” said a beaming Choetso, 33. “This baby is a blessing for the new year.”
The Buddhist couple’s new daughter’s name is Tenzin Choetso, a traditional Tibetan name given to her by the Dalai Lama himself in December.
To get the Dalai Lama’s recommendation for a name, they phoned a secretary for His Holiness, who then asked the spiritual leader for a suitable moniker.
Dolma said expecting parents of any faith can reach out to the Dalai Lama for a name suggestion. “It’s a good luck charm for the baby,” she explained, noting that her first daughter, Tenzin Choezey, was named the same way.
New York Methodist Hospital
Baby girl Shannon-Lee Willis was born was born five seconds after midnight Wednesday at New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to proud mother Samantha Nieves and father and namesake Shannon Willis.
The Dalai Lama’s given name is Tenzin Gyatso. He often suggests the first name of Tenzin, which means “to conquer the wisdom of Buddha” in Tibetan. He recommends various second names.
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Meanwhile, across the city in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a Crown Heights couple welcomed another healthy baby girl into the world just after the New Year.
Samantha Nieves, 27, a medical clerk, started going into labor at her apartment at 11 p.m. and was rushed in an ambulance to New York Methodist Hospital, where she gave birth to Shannon Lee Willis five seconds after midnight.
“I thought I was going to give birth in the ambulance,” said Nieves, who has another daughter, 5, and a stepson, 2. “I’m glad we lasted until the hospital.”
Shannon’s father said he dreamt this week that his unborn daughter told him she was coming on New Year’s Eve. “It truly is a blessing,” said the dad and baby’s namesake, Shannon Willis, 26.
A third baby was born at Kings County Hospital exactly at midnight, but the infant’s family declined to speak to the media, a hospital spokesman said.
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