{"id":107823,"date":"2026-01-01T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:24:07","slug":"meet-el-pasos-first-babies-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107823\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet El Paso&#8217;s first babies of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; The first babies born in El Paso in 2026 made their appearance bright and early January 1!<\/p>\n<p>University Medical Center announced that its first baby of the new year, Austin Alvarez, was born at 1:18 a.m. He was born weighing 6 pounds, 8 ounces, according to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Baby.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1436456\"\/>Austin Alvarez (Courtesy: UMC of El Paso)<\/p>\n<p>The Hospitals of Providence East Campus, meanwhile, helped deliver Eden Marie Flores just two minutes later at 1:20 a.m. She was born weighing 5 pounds, 9 ounces and was 18.5 inches long. The hospitals says that mom and dad are overjoyed to welcome their first child.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1436455\"\/>Eden Marie Flores (Courtesy: The Hospitals of Providence)<\/p>\n<p>The local hospitals have made it a <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/2025\/01\/01\/new-years-babies-delivered-at-area-hospitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tradition<\/a> to announce their first births of the year annually.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; The first babies born in El Paso in 2026 made their appearance bright&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-107823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107823","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=107823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}