The first reported birth in the city was at 12:14 a.m. at Denver Health Medical Center.

She was her parents’ first child and wasn’t immediately given a name, the hospital said in an announcement. Her parents released a picture through the hospital, but they declined to be identified.

Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge saw its first baby at 12:21 a.m. Nicole Beaulieu and Christopher Light had a son, Avery Christopher Light.

Back in April the parents were given a due date of Christmas, which had seemed like kind of a bummer, his father said.

“What kid wants to have a Christmas birthday, right?” he said, referencing the overlap of gifts and the problems with scheduling birthday parties.

A birth barely into the new year, however, works out great for celebrations.

“At Christmas, most people celebrate with their families,” Light said. “New Year’s people everybody celebrates, friends and family.”

Kira and Rayburn Gosney are the parents of the first baby of born at Mercy Regional Medical Center in 2015. Evelyn Rose Gosney was born at 12:02 a.m. New Year’s Day.

Saint Joseph Hospital reported its first birth at 2:58 a.m. when Emily Guadalupe Sotela was born to Maria Carbaja Sotela and Oscar Edwardo Molina Lopez.

University of Colorado Hospital had its first birth at 2:40 a.m., Henry Cavinder, the hospital announced on its Facebook page. His parents’ names were not released.

While it didn’t score the city’s first baby of the new year, University broke two of its records with 356 babies born in December, beating the old mark of 335 in a month and a record 3,610 babies for the year, the hospital said.

Other metro area hospitals didn’t release – and some declined invitations to release – their first babies of 2015.

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that the annual birth announcements are a dying tradition because of parents’ desire and legal requirements for privacy, as well as concerns about the potential for child abduction or identity theft.

The Joint Commission, a nonprofit that provides health care accreditations, has suggested hospitals stop providing birth notices to local newspapers for the same reasons.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has suggested hospitals obtain parental consent and eliminate home addresses and other precise identifying information from birth announcements or stop providing them to media.

Community Health Systems recently ordered its 207 facilities(none in Colorado) to stop publicizing the first baby of the year.

“We know the birth of the new year baby is a joyous and exciting event, but protecting patient safety and privacy is our most important responsibility,” said Tomi Galin, a spokeswoman for the Franklin, Tenn.-based company.

Some hospitals keep the tradition alive by getting the parents’ permission before making an announcement and providing only limited information, such as hometowns.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.