Kids & Family

This Is The First Baby Born In 2023 At Lake Forest Hospital

A Fox Lake couple welcomed the hospital's first baby of the year shortly after 5 a.m. on Sunday.

Parents Bailey Coronado and Kobe Lear are pictured with their son Devin, the first baby born at the hospital in 2023.
Parents Bailey Coronado and Kobe Lear are pictured with their son Devin, the first baby born at the hospital in 2023. (Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital )

LAKE FOREST, IL — A Fox Lake couple are the proud parents of the first baby born in 2023 at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital.

Devin Lear was born at 5:12 a.m. on Sunday to mother Bailey Coronado and father Kobe Lear, according to hospital officials.

Devin reportedly measured 19.5 inches and weighed in at 7 pounds, 3 ounces.

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Devin Lear was born at 5:12 a.m. Jan. 1, 2023, at Lake Forest Hospital, making him the first baby born this year in Lake Forest.(Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital)

The new parents also received a gift basket to commemorate being the first baby of 2023 at Lake Forest Hospital.

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