Girl born at midnight is Montreal's first baby of 2024

Article content Montreal’s first baby of 2024 is a girl born exactly at midnight on New Year’s Day at St Mary’s Hospital. Communications staff representing the hospital weren’t immediately able to share her name or weight. Another Montreal hospital announced a baby born not long after the start of the new year: Lina Maria Ben Amor, who came into the world at 3:19 a.m.

at the McGill University Health Centre, weighing 3.68 kilograms. The MUHC reported that the girl and her mother, Olena Saguil, were doing well. Saguil and the baby’s father, Mohamed Hedi Ben Amor, live in Montreal. By mid morning on Monday, no other hospital had reported the birth of a baby since the start of the New Year..