{"id":382595,"date":"2026-01-02T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:40:08","slug":"unitypoint-health-meriter-welcomes-first-baby-of-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382595\/","title":{"rendered":"UnityPoint Health-Meriter welcomes first baby of 2026 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, Wis.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Madison is celebrating the first baby born in 2026 at UnityPoint Health-Meriter.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Ezariah was brought into this world at 12:21 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Hospital officials expressed their excitement, saying, &#8220;We couldn\u2019t imagine a more joyful start to 2026 than welcoming this little bundle of joy into the world!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">UnityPoint Health-Meriter&#8217;s birthing center is the busiest in Wisconsin, welcoming over 5,200 babies delivered in the state&#8217;s capital city in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2025 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Madison is celebrating the first baby born in 2026 at UnityPoint Health-Meriter. Ezariah was brought into this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[54639,97,252,253,17776,186526,186527],"class_list":["post-382595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-54639","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-madison","tag-unitypoint-health-meriter","tag-unitypoint-health-meriter-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}