{"id":107742,"date":"2026-01-01T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:48:09","slug":"1st-babies-of-2026-in-austin-welcomed-at-texas-childrens-ascension-seton-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107742\/","title":{"rendered":"1st babies of 2026 in Austin welcomed at Texas Children&#8217;s &#038; Ascension Seton Main"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The first babies of 2026 in Austin have been welcomed to the world.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Congratulations to all the families!<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p> Where were first babies of 2026 in Austin born?  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/babyderek.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Derek Sanchz (Photo courtesy Ascension Seton Main) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Ascenion Seton Main says its first baby was born at 12:02 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Derek Sanchez was born weighing 5 pounds and 5 ounces.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Mom Maria Sanchez Diaz and Derek are doing well.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/baby-elina1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Elina Abuasab (Photo courtesy Texas Children&#8217;s) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Texas Children&#8217;s announced the birth of two babies.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The first, Elina Abuasab, was born at 1:42 a.m. to parents Amal and Tareq.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Elina is 21 inches long and weighs 8 pounds and 12 ounces.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/baby-hannah3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Hannah Harper (Photo courtesy Texas Children&#8217;s) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Just a few hours after Elina, Hannah Harper was born.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Texas Children&#8217;s says Hannah was born at 3:40 a.m. to parents Jessica and Tyler.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Hannah was also 21 inches long and weighs 6 pounds and 15 ounces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Texas Children&#8217;s and Ascension Seton Main.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/heartwarming\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heartwarming News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The first babies of 2026 in Austin have been welcomed to the world. Congratulations to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,247,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-107742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-heartwarming","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-travis-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}