MONTREAL - The first baby of the year 2018 in Quebec was born at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal at midnight and two seconds.
It's a girl weighing 3.26 pounds, said Claire Roy, spokeswoman for the Integrated West Island Health and Social Services Center of the West Island.
The mother, Miriam Oviedo, described the birth of her daughter Maxine as the "best birthday present" since she herself was born on December 31st.
She explained that the delivery was scheduled for February, but it became very clear around 8:00 pm Sunday night, that the little Maxine Kylie Ona no longer wanted to wait.
Miriam Oviedo told The Canadian Press that she felt very good and that the baby is in excellent health.
Baby Maxine became the third daughter of the family. She has two older sisters aged three and five.
In the Quebec City area, we had to wait until 3:31 before welcoming our first baby to the Saint-François d'Assise Hospital at the University Hospital of Laval.
It is also a girl. Mother and child are doing well.
The first in Canada were born in Toronto
Difficult to do better than a birth at midnight and two seconds in Montreal, but it seems that this is the case in Toronto.
Two hospitals in Toronto, St-Michael and Humbert River, announced that they welcomed newborns at midnight on January 1st.
New mom Hlengiwe Khoza gave birth to a seven-pound, 11-ounce girl named Shiloh in St-Michael.
On the Humber River side, a baby named Phillip was born at midnight, seven seconds before twin sister Victoria.
In Calgary, parents Amy and Tyler Muir saw their baby boy be born 12 seconds after midnight, according to a statement from Alberta Health Services.
In British Columbia, the government announced that the province's first child was a Surrey-born girl nine seconds into the new year.