{"id":356312,"date":"2026-06-30T21:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356312\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:32:22","slug":"first-baby-born-at-new-ascension-seton-womens-hospital-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356312\/","title":{"rendered":"First baby born at new Ascension Seton Women&#8217;s Hospital in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 A baby girl named Akira became the first infant born at the new Ascension Seton Women&#8217;s Hospital, just days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/ascension-seton-cuts-ribbon-on-new-state-of-the-art-womens-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">facility opened its doors<\/a> in central Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Akira was born at 10 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces, according to Ascension Seton. The hospital celebrated the milestone, calling it &#8220;a first we&#8217;ll never forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/ascension-seton-cuts-ribbon-on-new-state-of-the-art-womens-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Ascension Seton cuts ribbon on new state-of-the-art Women&#8217;s Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The birth comes several days after Ascension Seton held its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new hospital, located at 1201 W. 38th St. <\/p>\n<p>The $362 million facility was &#8220;purpose-built to provide comprehensive, specialized care for women at every stage of life,&#8221; according to Ascension Seton. It includes 178 beds and spans more than 300,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>The new hospital features state-of-the-art labor and delivery suites, specialized maternal care units, private patient suites, a birthing tub and a neonatal intensive care unit, among other amenities designed to meet growing demand for maternity and women&#8217;s health services as Central Texas continues to expand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A baby girl named Akira became the first infant born at the new Ascension Seton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-356312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356312","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=356312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}