WAIMEA — Cy Akaji of Lawai was just hoping their son would be born some time after Jan. 1. “I didn’t want all this fanfare,” the quiet fire fighter from the Kalaheo fire station said. “I wanted him to be
WAIMEA — Cy Akaji of Lawai was just hoping their son would be born some time after Jan. 1.
“I didn’t want all this fanfare,” the quiet fire fighter from the Kalaheo fire station said. “I wanted him to be born after New Year’s so he wouldn’t have to wait an extra year for school. I didn’t want all this attention.”
With a schedule due date of Dec. 28, the baby boy entered the world at 6:17 a.m., Jan. 1, the first child of Deanne Shimonishi and Akaji.
The baby, with no name attached as of press time, weighed in a 7 pounds, 12 ounces, at the family birth unit at the Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waimea.
“I guess for now I’m a full-time mom,” Shimonishi said. “I was doing some contract work, but that just expired, so now I can devote my attention to my son.”
As the New Year Baby for Kauai and KVMH, the young family was surrounded by well-wishers, friends, and relatives, receiving a special gift basket from KVMH for being the New Year’s Baby.
“We had two baskets,” said Chantelle DePeralta, a nurse at the Family Birth Unit. “We gave one to a Christmas baby, and this one goes to the young boy.”
