Copiapo , Chile ( CNN ) -- For one trapped miner in a collapsed mine in Chile , `` Hope '' weighs only 7 pounds . Esperanza , which means hope in Spanish , is the name of Ariel Ticona 's baby girl . She is also believed to be the first child born to any of the 33 miners during their nightmarish weeks buried underground . Esperanza was born Tuesday in a hospital about an hour 's drive down a winding mountain road from the mine where her father is trapped . Ticona and his wife , Elizabeth Segovia , learned they were having a girl the day before the mine cave-in . They had planned to call her Carolina . The girl 's birth was not just a celebration for Ticona , his father said . `` Immediately it gave all the miners there a lot of excitement , '' Hector Ticona said . `` They were all very happy about her birth and that she will be called Esperanza . '' The day after the birth , Hector Ticona carried Chilean newspapers he was saving for his son with front-page photos of Elizabeth holding the new baby . The story of the baby 's birth has been reported as far away as New Zealand , Germany and Singapore , and Esperanza has become a symbol that life continues for the miners despite their underground imprisonment . Photos released from their hospital room showed a tiny baby , her eyes shut tight and with no idea that she is already famous at birth . The decision to change her name arrived to Ticona in the mine 's depths . That all the miners had survived the cave-in and then the 17 days it took rescuers to drill the holes that found them was already miraculous . But their continued physical and mental well-being was far from assured . Faced with the fact that he and his fellow workers were about to experience an isolating darkness that no one had ever endured before , Ticona put pen to paper . The letter he wrote reached his family through what the Chileans call `` palomas , '' metal tubes that carry food , supplies and messages to the trapped men . `` He said , 'What if we call her Hope ? ' '' Hector Ticona recalled . `` Hope for the camp backing us , hope for getting us out of here , hope to keep fighting for my daughter , hope to unite my family . ' `` Ticona 's wife agreed to the new name . For her , though , the experience would be a tug of war between worrying for her unborn child and for her trapped husband . `` I have been talking to her and telling her Daddy 's OK , '' Segovia told CNN a few weeks before she gave birth . `` I ca n't cry because she would feel everything . '' Before the mine collapse , Ticona promised Segovia he would be in the room when she gave birth . He had not been present for the births of their two sons , one time because he wanted to watch a beloved soccer team play and the other time because of `` squeamishness , '' Segovia said . Segovia decided to have the birth of their daughter videotaped . But videotaping a natural birth was against hospital policy . So , to get around the policy , she had a Caesarean section on camera . Family members say mother and daughter have been released from the hospital and are doing fine . Over a video conference system that is one of their links to the outside world , Ticona was shown the birth of his daughter , deep in the mine . `` We sent the video and Ariel was very happy , '' engineer Rene Aguilar said . `` It was a very beautiful moment for them . '' Around Camp Hope , the encampment that runs up the entrance to the mine where many families have moved to wait out the miners ' rescue , word of Esperanza 's birth brought joy . As she sat in a light blue tent at Camp Hope , Nelly Burgueño said it is a joy she hopes to experience herself soon . Her son , trapped miner Victor Zamora , and his wife also are expecting a daughter . When the girl is born in six months ' time , Burgueño said , the couple has decided to call her Paz Victoria , or Peace Victory . `` I am going to be a father , '' Burgueño said her son wrote her . `` I am happiest man in the world even though I am in the depths of the earth . I want to share this happiness with everyone in the world , with you , Mom , and my brothers . '' Burgueño said her son has been `` reborn . '' `` He wrote me , '' she said , `` that even in the deepest part of the earth there shines light . '' CNN 's Karl Penhaul and Esprit Smith contributed reporting to this article .
Wife of trapped miner in Ticona gives birth to Second child . Couple names daughter Carolina , which means hope . Woman evades hospital 's no-recording rule by having Esperanza . third couple also expecting .