{"id":86902,"date":"2026-01-01T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:49:07","slug":"welcoming-2026-with-immense-gratitude-staten-island-celebrates-first-babies-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86902\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Welcoming 2026 with immense gratitude\u2019: Staten Island celebrates first babies of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PGWTYAUMCBH5DOMEMB3GTCMKVE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; The first babies born on Staten Island in 2026 were welcomed into the world just minutes apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RZSO44CSGNFE5JV5SRL74EWKJU\">At 2:27 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 1, Sahar Irfan and Usman Janjua of Dubai welcomed their first child, Muhammad Usman, at Richmond University Medical Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CUWELEXYSNDMVMFK7DJUBAY6IE\">\u201cWe are welcoming 2026 with immense gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our first-born son, Muhammad Usman,\u201d Irfan said. \u201cSpecial thanks to Dr. Jeanette Voice and her entire staff for their exceptional care and support in making my delivery the easiest.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"THCA4DLIYNHQTITNQXXP4HBEFY\">The baby boy weighed in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 19\u00bd inches long, according to the West Brighton hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4HXDFVD7C5BXNINZRV6IV4G3FI\">And minutes before, at Northwell Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, Baby Boy Gold, who has not yet been given a full name, was born to a Brooklyn couple. He arrived at 2:23 a.m. weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 19\u00bd inches long, the hospital reported.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Year's baby born at SIUH\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNDQMOIGLZCQPLSJBBMDL4RA3Y.png\"  \/>Baby Boy Gold, pictured here, was born on Thursday, Jan. 1, at 2:23 a.m. at Northwell Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.(Courtesy of Staten Island University Hospital)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; The first babies born on Staten Island in 2026 were welcomed into the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-86902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}