New Year’s Day Baby: Healthy 6-Pound Boy

A healthy baby boy made his debut as the first baby of 2025 at 12:15 a.m. on January 1st. The baby, born to 19-year-old Glenda Pop from Hattieville, weighed six pounds and had a smooth, uncomplicated birth.

Glenda told News 5 that she arrived at the hospital at around 8 o’clock in the night on December 31 after experiencing labour pains. Within hours, she was fully dilated. “I came straight to the hospital, and they told me I would have my baby right now,” Pop said.

Estella Flowers, Unit Manager for Maternity and Labour and Delivery, shared, “This is a full, mature baby, born at 40 weeks with no complications.”

“We were expecting a lot of babies that night, on the 31st of December, to come in on the first. But she was the only one that came in 8 centimetres dilated and delivered at 12:15,” Flowers added.

The hospital celebrated the first baby of the year with special gifts and recognition. Glenda, who is already the mother of one, has yet to decide on a name for her newborn son.