{"id":75652,"date":"2026-01-01T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75652\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:42:13","slug":"philadelphia-area-hospitals-welcome-first-babies-of-2026-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75652\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-area hospitals welcome first babies of 2026 \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Philadelphia-area families are starting 2026 with new additions! <\/p>\n

Temple Women & Families Hospital, located in Philadelphia, welcomed its first baby of the year at 12:10 a.m. on New Year’s Day. <\/p>\n

Baby boy Ezkiel Hall was born to Natalie Rivera. <\/p>\n

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Credit: Temple Women & Families Hospital<\/p>\n

At Penn Medicine Doylestown Hospital, baby\u00a0Henry Schamp was born exactly at midnight to parents Sarah and Ryan Schamp.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Penn Medicine <\/p>\n

The first baby at St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network’s Anderson Campus in Easton, Pennsylvania, was Ja’coby Asher Roberson, born at 1:11 a.m. <\/p>\n

Ja’coby weighs 8 pounds and 6 ounces and was welcomed by parents Brian Roberson and Kobie Smith.<\/p>\n

St. Luke’s shared that both the baby boy and the mom are healthy and doing well. <\/p>\n

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Credit: St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/p>\n

At Lankenau Medical Center, part of Main Line Health, baby Elliott Sarnoff was born at 12:22 a.m. to parents Kim and Jason Sarnoff. <\/p>\n

The hospital shared that he was born weighing 8 pounds and 13 ounces. <\/p>\n

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Credit: Lankenau Medical Center, Main Line Health<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all the families! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Philadelphia-area families are starting 2026 with new additions! Temple Women & Families Hospital, located in Philadelphia, welcomed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1057,34303,3734,915,28,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-75652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-wellness","10":"tag-holidays","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}