Meet 2024’s New Year’s babies from Alberta’s 3 largest cities
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Alberta Health Services has announced the first three babies to be born in Alberta's three largest cities in 2024.
The first baby to be born in Alberta in 2024 gave her family a dramatic countdown to midnight on New Year’s Eve by being born at exactly 12 a.m. on Jan. 1.
Alberta Health Services has announced the first three babies to be born in Alberta’s three largest cities and Isley Noelle Falk arrived sooner than anyone else when she was born at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton.
AHS said Isley was born weighing exactly 10 pounds.
“We weren’t expecting Jan. 1 as I was induced on Dec. 29,” Isley’s mother Laura Falk said in a news release issued Monday. “It’s crazy she hung on for so long.
“We were surprised that she was born right at the stroke of midnight. … It’s a special day.”
Falk said Isley is her first child.
Calgary’s New Year’s baby arrived 25 minutes after Edmonton’s.
AHS said Chris and Marina Qiro welcomed their new daughter Marianthi into the world at the Foothill Medical Centre at 12:25 a.m.
In keeping with tradition, it is to be laid in a raised planter bed, where it will decay and return to the earth.
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