{"id":116357,"date":"2026-01-01T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116357\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:22:07","slug":"new-years-day-baby-brings-joy-to-bakersfield-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116357\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Day baby brings joy to Bakersfield family"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Tahnee and William of Bakersfield celebrated the arrival of their baby girl, Billie, born at 3:43 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2026, at Adventist Health Bakersfield. <\/p>\n

Billie, named after her grandfather, weighed 7 lbs 15 ounces and measured 19 1\/2 inches. <\/p>\n

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New Year’s Day baby brings joy to Bakersfield family. Photo: Adventist Health Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

The couple, who have two other daughters and a son, were not expecting Billie until Jan. 3. <\/p>\n

“Having a New Year’s baby is a pleasant surprise,” they said, noting it continues their tradition of holiday birthdays, as Tahnee’s birthday is on Valentine’s Day. <\/p>\n

The Birth Center team presented the family with a baby basket and wished them a Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Tahnee and William of Bakersfield celebrated the arrival of their baby girl, Billie, born…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-116357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}