{"id":102491,"date":"2026-01-01T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:57:10","slug":"south-florida-hospitals-welcome-first-new-years-babies-of-2026-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102491\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida hospitals welcome first New Year\u2019s babies of 2026 \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after the clock struck midnight and 2026 had arrived, hospitals in Miami-Dade and Broward greeted some of the newest South Florida residents with the arrival of several New Year\u2019s babies.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Regional Hospital welcomed its first baby of the year at 12:16 a.m. when Baby Isaiah was born weighing 6 pounds, 1.7 ounces and 19 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>Both Isaiah and mom Donnica Hayes were doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Baptist Health welcomed its first baby of 2026 at 12:41 a.m. at South Miami Hospital with the birth of Sienna, who was 8 piunds, 2 ounces and 19.6 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Sienna and mom were said to be resting comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/010126-south-florida-first-babies-2026.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Baby Sienna and family, and Baby Isaiah\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBaptist Health, Memorial Healthcare System<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tBaptist Health, Memorial Healthcare System<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sienna and family, and Baby Isaiah<\/p>\n<p>And Jackson Health System welcomes its first 2026 newborns, with a baby boy born at Jackson North Medical Center at 1:36 a.m. weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and a baby girl born at Jackson Memorial Hospital at 3:47 a.m. weighing 5 pounds, 7 ounces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after the clock struck midnight and 2026 had arrived, hospitals in Miami-Dade and Broward greeted some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,807],"class_list":["post-102491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}