Baby girl is year's first at 2:03

By Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writer

Dr. Reiko Keyamura holds daughter Eika at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, the first child born in Hawai'i this year.

Mother Reiko, father Eiji, and son Leo Keyamura, 2, admire the newest member of the family. Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser

Hawai'i's first baby of the new year, tiny Eika Keyamura, arrived after most of the New Year's celebrations had peaked. But that was just fine with her mother, Reiko Keyamura, who gave birth at 2:03 a.m. yesterday at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children.

Eika weighed 6 pounds on arrival and is 19 inches long, said her mother, a 40-year-old cardiologist from Japan.

Eika's father, architect Eiji Keyamura, is a visiting scholar at the University of Hawai'i from Miyagi University in Japan, his wife said.

They live in Kahala.

Eika also has a brother, 2-year-old Leo, but she may not be the last sibling, her mother said.

"Well," Reiko Keyamura said as her husband slept at home, "I want to have one more baby."

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