'GMA' plays host to five births

(CNN) -- "Good Morning America" was hoping for just one. Instead, it got five times that number.

The morning show, which had announced last week it was going to air a live birth, televised five of them on Tuesday morning's show. The first child, a 7-lb., 6-oz. girl named Kelsey Nolan, was born to parents Amy and Jim Nolan of Boston, Massachusetts, at 7:05 a.m. The birth took place at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Miss Nolan was followed in short order by Francisco Gamez of Dallas, Texas, at 7:17; Jackson Hornung of Boston at 7:20; Jacob Ryan Shamban of Houston, Texas, at 7:23; and Coraima Luna of Dallas at 8:31. Shamban was born at The Methodist Hospital of Houston; the Dallas children were born at that city's Parkland Memorial Hospital, which boasts the highest number of births in the nation -- 16,000 per year.

Though the births would seem to be another in a string of "reality" shows that have become television's dominant trend, "GMA" producer Shelley Ross has said the childbirth segment was inspired more by the critically praised but short-lived ABC documentary series "Hopkins 24/7," in which cameras followed real doctors around a real hospital in Baltimore.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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