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Marine in Iraq watches birth, thanks to web-cam

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He was 6,000 miles from Brooklyn, but Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Cintron got a glimpse of his newborn son before his wife did.

"Hi, I'm your daddy," Cintron announced to his minutes-old son. "Look, your nose is squishy."

In a remarkable four-hour Web cast from a maternity ward at Maimonides Medical Center, mom Jeannine Cintron's delivery of son Michael James Cintron was beamed clear across ocean and land to his 26-year-old father in Iraq.

The baby weighed in at 7 pounds, 3 ounces and the new dad weighed in with a fatherly shriek: "Look! He's looking at me!"

In Maimonides' first-ever video conference of a baby delivery, Cintron first heard the baby's heartbeat. ......
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