New Year’s Day baby

Contributed Photo/Courtesy MGRMC: The first and only baby born on New Year’s Day at Mount Graham Regional Medical Center is Elysia Säde Rodriguez, of Safford.

Contributed Article/Courtesy MGRMC

Contributed Photo/Courtesy MGRMC: Mother Melissa Rodriguez gives her newborn girl Elysia Säde Rodriguez a kiss.

SAFFORD – The first and only baby born on New Year’s Day at the Mount Graham Regional Medical Center this year was Elysia Säde Rodriguez. 

Elysia weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, and was 19-1/2 inches long at birth. 

She was born to Melissa Rodriguez, of Safford, with grandparents Patsi and Joseph Perez, also of Safford.