{"id":77237,"date":"2026-01-03T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77237\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:45:12","slug":"new-years-babies-2026-local-hospitals-welcome-lehigh-valley-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77237\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s babies 2026: Local hospitals welcome Lehigh Valley newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new year arrived with new beginnings for several families across the Lehigh Valley, as local hospitals celebrated the births of their first babies of 2026.<\/p>\n

Isabella Mia Bourdier-Corneil became one of Jefferson Health<\/a>\u2019s earliest arrivals at 12:11 a.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township. The newborn, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 21 inches long, was welcomed by parents Carissa Corneil and Victor Caraballo-Bourdier, of Zionsville.<\/p>\n

At Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Priscilla Flores and Jason Olowoyo, of Bethlehem, celebrated the arrival of their daughter Elliana Tola Olowoyo at 12:42 a.m. Baby Elliana weighed 5 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 17.5 inches long.<\/p>\n

MORE: Most popular baby names 2025: Noah and Sophia top Lehigh Valley lists<\/a><\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township welcomed Ja\u2019coby Asher Roberson at 1:11 a.m. as St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/a>\u2019s first baby of the year. The boy weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and measured 21 inches long. His parents are Kobie Smith and Brian Roberson.<\/p>\n

\"NewBaby Ja’coby Asher Roberson, photographed with mother Kobie Smith and father Brian Roberson, was the first baby of 2026 born in a St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network hospital \u2014 at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, at the Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township.Courtesy St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new year arrived with new beginnings for several families across the Lehigh Valley, as local hospitals celebrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-77237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77237","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=77237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}