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These New Year's Day babies are among the first born in the year Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in theGrio, ...

Brandon Alexander Whittington was originally due on Christmas Day. But instead, he arrived at 12:06 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital on New Year’s Day at 7 pounds and 13 ounces after his mother, Shaniqua ...

Michigan babies born in the very first minutes and hours of 2026 are getting a big welcome. Local hospitals announced the very first births of the year, a nod to "Baby New Year," a long-held symbol of ...

THEY RETURN FROM A VACATION. ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE THE FIRST BABIES OF THE NEW YEAR. KAISER PERMANENTE CELEBRATING SOME OF THEIR FIRST BABIES BORN IN THEIR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS. BABY ARIAH ...

The first one happened right at the stroke of midnight at Children’s Memorial Hermann. Baby girl Julia was born, weighing 10 pounds and five ounces. Both baby and mom are doing well. Baby Adriel ...

Some lucky New Jersey couples have a lot more to celebrate than just the new year. The ball had dropped and the red, white and blue confetti was still swirling in Times Square when the first babies ...

Some Philadelphia-area families are starting 2026 with new additions! Temple Women & Families Hospital, located in Philadelphia, welcomed their first baby of the year at 12:10 a.m. on New Year's Day.

As far as first babies of the New Year go, little Nova Nicole Norton didn't try to beat the clock nor did she take her time in ringing in 2026. Nova came into the world at 1:05 a.m. at Mountainside ...

Local hospitals are celebrating New Year's Day by spotlighting the first babies born in the state in 2026. Morning reports indicated the region's first baby of the year was born in Castle Rock, but ...

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