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CLARE’S first baby of the new dec- ade was in no rush to get going and arrived at 7.l4am at the Regional Maternity Hospital in Limerick.
The 2.61 k delightful baby girl was born to Brian and Nollaig Minnogue from Poulagowan in Scariff. Her de- lighted parents took her home at the weekend after a brief stay for mum Nollaig to recover.
Parents Laura O’Neill and Joe Kiely from Bruff in County Limer- ick were delighted to welcome their baby daughter, Ava, who arrived at St Munchin’s at 2.5lam to become the first new citizen of the mid-west.
She was the fifth baby born in St Munchin’s on January 1, on what was a “quiet day” for the hospital. By comparison, there were 18 births in the labour ward of the maternity hos- pital a day previously, December 31.
December 31 was also a full moon and, according to many experts in labour and childbirth, this is a very common time for women to give birth.
Waterford claimed the honours of producing the first Irish baby of the decade. Little Ava Hennessy clocked in at just 28 seconds past midnight at Waterford Regional Hospital.
Parents Rebecca and Shane, from Dunmore East, Co Waterford, were aware that the clock was ticking down on 2009 but just wanted to lay eyes on her as soon as they could.
“The midwife said to me ‘would
you like her to be born in 2009 or 2010?’, and I said “I don’t mind’. That was 11.20pm. I just wanted to see her as soon as possible,” said Rebecca.
Ava tipped the scales at 91b 5o0z and is the fourth child for the Hennessys. She has a big brother Jamie (17) and two sisters Abbie (11) and Danielle (OF
Just pipped at the post was little Harvey Hetherington-Kelly who was born at Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin at one minute past midnight to parents Tanya and Stephen from Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
The third baby of the new year was delivered at the National Maternity
Hospital on Holles Street at 13 min- utes past midnight.
Tegan O’Neill, who weighed in at 91lb 50z, was born to overjoyed par- ents Carmel and Pat from Castle- knock in Dublin.
The first baby of 2010 born in the west arrived at 2.27am. The little girl, was born to mum Fiona Cough- lan from Athlone at Portiuncula Hos- pital in Ballinasloe, County Galway.