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Siaturai Pogai calls them her holiday babies.
Her oldest daughter, 10, was born on Feb. 14, 2002 — Valentine’s Day.
Her second daughter came into the world Easter Day 2003.
Her fifth child was due on Christmas Day.
Instead, little Christian decided to wait.
He was born at 12:36 a.m. New Year’s Day, becoming Oahu’s first baby of 2013.
"It’s a blessing," Pogai said from her hospital room at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
She added with a laugh, "My son is my firework."
Pogai, of Honolulu, went into labor about 9:30 a.m. New Year’s Eve. Doctors gave her medication to speed things along, but Christian took his sweet time.
Finally, Pogai said, as revelers lit fireworks to ring in 2013, she started to push.
Christian came in at a healthy 8 pounds, 8.6 ounces.
Pogai, 29, a single mom, said she’ll take a little break with her youngest before returning to school in the spring.
She is studying to become a pharmacy technician at Heald College.
Pogai’s four other children — two girls and two boys — are with their father in Alaska.
That’s where Pogai plans to move in mid-2013, once Christian is a little older and she has graduated with her degree.
Pogai was born and raised in Nanakuli, but lived in Alaska from 2002 to 2008. She returned to the islands to help her family.
Pogai said she sent photos of Christian to his siblings in Alaska, and they are very excited to meet him.
"They can’t wait," she said.
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