{"id":347686,"date":"2026-01-02T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347686\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:06:15","slug":"scotlands-first-2026-babies-make-new-year-a-double-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347686\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s first 2026 babies make New Year a double celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first babies of 2026 have been welcomed by delighted parents across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baby Arabella was born at 14 minutes past midnight at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit  in Kilmarnock to parents  Lucy-Jane Bark and Luke Hutchinson, from Stevenston. She weighed 8lb 9oz (3.9kg)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 00:21 Colette and Ryan Lynch, from Port Glasgow, celebrated the birth of Leo, weighing 6lb 10oz (3kg), at  the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Minutes later, the first baby born at St John&#8217;s Hospital in Livingston was Hunter, who arrived at 00:26. Parents Courtney Brown and Graham Lindsay, from Broxburn, said he was due on Christmas Day but decided to hold on till 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first babies of 2026 have been welcomed by delighted parents across Scotland. Baby Arabella was born at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-347686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}