Lehigh Valley Health Network only had to wait 11 minutes for its first Lehigh Valley baby of 2026, while the St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network welcomed its first New Year\u2019s arrival an hour later at 1:11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Born 11 minutes after midnight at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Isabella Mia Bourdier-Corneil weighed in at 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 21 inches in length.<\/p>\n
Parents Carissa Corneil and Victor Caraballo-Bourdier of Zionsville were the first family within the Jefferson Health Lehigh Valley network to welcome a 2026 baby, with four other local families celebrating arrivals between midnight and 4 a.m.<\/p>\n
Ja\u2019coby Asher Roberson arrived at 1:11 a.m. at St. Luke\u2019s-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township. Parents Kobie Smith and Brian Roberson celebrated the birth of their son, who weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and measured 21 inches in length.<\/p>\n
While the family had been anticipating a New Year\u2019s birth, they didn\u2019t expect their first child\u2019s time of birth to echo the month and day.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue date was actually Jan. 1st, so it was kind of perfect,\u201d Smith said of the 1:11 a.m. birth on 1\/1.<\/p>\n
Being a new mother is a blessing, Smith said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just grateful for the whole process,\u201d Smith said, \u201cand for everything \u2014 for him being healthy, and me also being healthy and him being the first baby of 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the early morning birth and a photo shoot, the family is resting and recuperating, St. Luke\u2019s spokesperson Wendy Kaiser said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited for the family,\u201d Kaiser said.<\/p>\n
Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Health Network only had to wait 11 minutes for its first Lehigh Valley baby of 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1057,433,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-75790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northampton-county","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75790","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=75790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}