- Christina Malone-Brown was born at 9:11 p.m. on 9/11, weighing 9 pounds and 11 ounces.
- Dad Justin Brown joked that his family should play the lottery.
- Mom Cametrione Malone-Brown said her daughter's birth brought lightness to a day shadowed by the 2001 terror attacks.
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A Mississippi couple welcomed a 9-pound, 11-ounce baby into the world on 9/11, at 9:11 p.m.
The Commercial Appeal reported Christina Malone-Brown was born by cesarean section at Methodist Le Bonheur Hospital in Germantown, Tennessee.
Christina's father, Justin Brown, says bystanders joked his family should play the lottery. He said the doctor kept saying "Oh my goodness, I've got a 9/11, 9/11, 9/11."
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A photo of the baby shows her asleep in a hospital bed for infants, wires connected to her torso and a blue elastic band wrapped around her head. ABC 7 reported that baby Christina is receiving some extra oxygen in NICU because of a minor lung issue, but she is expected to be okay.
Her mother, Cametrione Malone-Brown, said her baby girl brought a spot of light to a day darkened by memories of the 2001 terror attacks.
"You find triumph, you find a piece of joy from a day that's so drastic and still hurts," she said.
Patient coordinator Rachel Laughlin said she's never seen such a birth in her 38 years of working in healthcare.
"It just makes her a even more special little girl that she already is," Laughlin told ABC 7.
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