The first baby born in 2025 at an Edmonton hospital was an eight-pound girl at Grey Nuns Community Hospital, according to Covenant Health.
She was born at 12:29 a.m., weighing eight pounds, two ounces, the health provider says.
She had not been named by her parents Sukhdeep Kaur and Jasleen Singh Chohan as of Wednesday afternoon.
She was not the first baby born in the Edmonton health zone, however.
Oliver, a nine-pound and one-ounce boy, was born at 12:18 a.m. at the Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert to Danielle and Brandyn Morrison.
Danielle and Brandyn Morrison sit in their Gibbons home with their 15-month old son Grayson and newborn Oliver, who was born 18 minutes into the new year. (Galen McDougall / CTV News Edmonton)
“It’s pretty great,” the mom said of her second son’s timing, right on his due date.
“Everybody was so excited. The gift shop at …