Michigan’s first babies of 2026 make their debut

Michigan infants born within the very first minutes and hours of 2026 are being welcomed warmly.

Native hospitals introduced the very first births of the yr, a nod to “Child New 12 months,” an extendedsymbol of a new calendar year, representing rebirth.

Only a few minutes into the brand new yr, at 12:03 p.m., Julia Elizabeth Flemming arrived at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township. Julia, the daughter of Stacy and Daniel Flemming of Warren, weighed 7 kilos, 13 ounces. She joins massive sisters Isabelle and Margo.

In Detroit, child Jakai was born at 12:34 a.m. at Detroit Medical Middle Hutzel Girls’s Hospital to his mom Rakiah and father Jarmel. Child Jakai weighed 8 kilos, 2 ounces at beginning and was 2 ft lengthy.

At Corewell Well being Beaumont Troy Hospital, child Alayna was born at 12:15 p.m., weighing 8 kilos, 4 ounces and measuring 24 inches lengthy. Mother and father Ashley and Andrew Dunbar are from Rochester Hills. Alayna waited significantly longer than anticipated to offer beginning: her due date was December 21.

On the College of Michigan Von Voigtlander Girls’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, the primary child of the brand new yr was a woman born at 12:50 p.m. to Natasha Radke and Shane Dukes of Brighton. The lady’s first identify has not but been chosen and her due date is December 31, so virtually on schedule.

At Trinity Well being Ann Arbor, the primary child of the yr arrived at 2:13 a.m. on Jan. 1. Child Gill, a woman whose first identify has not but been decided, weighed 7 kilos, 5 ounces, and is the daughter and first baby of Harjot and Dick Gill of Superior Township.

At Trinity Well being Livonia, the primary child made its debut at 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 1. Child Crouch, a boy whose first identify has not but been decided, weighed 6 kilos, 12 ounces. His mother and father are Chelsea and Parker Crouch of Livonia.

At Trinity Well being Oakland, the primary child of the yr arrived at 5:06 a.m. on Jan. 1. Child Kashton, 8 kilos, 9 ounces, is the son of Kaylee Crane and Jereme Hayes of Pontiac.

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