Heather Murtagh/Daily Journal Adam Rosenblatt and Amanda Levinson sit with their son Sal Rose-Levin, who was born at 12:58 a.m. Friday morning at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City making him the first baby born in San Mateo County in 2010.

Little Sal Rose-Levin, born two minutes before 1 a.m. Friday morning, and his mother Amanda Levinson missed the rare blue moon that rang in the new year.

The pair spent the evening at Sequoia Hospital, meeting each other in person. Sal is the first little one born in San Mateo County in 2010. Born at 12:58 a.m., Sal weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and was 19 inches long. Don’t worry; Sal will have the chance to see a New Year’s Eve blue moon in 2028.

But first, Sal has to meet his older brother Leo.

Sal is the second son for 34-year-old Levinson and 32-year-old Adam Rosenblatt. The pair met in 2002 in Austin, Texas while Levinson was a graduate student and Rosenblatt was working with AmeriCorps. They had mutual friends. When it came to moving past a casual meeting to dating, Rosenblatt had a simple explanation as to how the transition occurred: “She gets what she wants. Lucky for me, it worked out.”

They married Aug. 28, 2004, Rosenblatt’s birthday. Before getting married, the couple spent one year living in Chile pursuing academic and professional interests before moving to Boston for a year. They exchanged nuptials north of Boston and moved to the Bay Area when Rosenblatt was accepted to Stanford University, where he is a doctorate student. Levinson is the director of the operations for Hope Street Group, a public policy nonprofit.

The couple has a 2-and-a-half-year-old son named Leo, who has yet to meet his little brother. Despite this, Leo is already sporting a big brother T-shirt in anticipation of meeting the newest addition. The two should be able to meet today, when Sal and his mom are discharged from the hospital.

Sal’s name pays homage to family members for both parents. The S represents the first initial of Levinson’s grandmother’s name, Sis. They wanted to keep his name short and sweet. Sal’s middle name, Jacob, is Rosenblatt’s grandfather’s name and starts with the same first letter as his grandmother.

He was named after a quick labor.

Levinson’s water broke in the afternoon, but active labor did not begin until 9 p.m.

Dr. Gary Hoff got a call to come to the hospital quickly, and the birth went quickly. It was a natural birth.

Rosenblatt noted how well the hospital worked with the couple’s doula, Mara Cohen. A doula is an assistant who provides various forms of non-medical support during the birth process.

Sal was not the only little one born in the first hours of 2010.

It appears the first Bay Area baby was born at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose 20 seconds after midnight, according to information gathered by Bay City News. At 12:01 a.m., Rosa Lee was born at California Pacific Medical Center’s California campus in San Francisco. The second baby born in San Mateo County arrived at 8:16 a.m. at Mills-Peninsula Hospital.

Heather Murtagh can be reached by e-mail: heather@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 105.