{"id":654026,"date":"2025-12-25T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:07:15","slug":"christmas-newborns-bring-festive-cheer-for-parents-in-glasgow-and-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654026\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas newborns bring festive cheer for parents in Glasgow and Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parents across Scotland welcomed some very special packages in the early hours of Christmas Day. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Glasgow\u2019s Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, a mum who wished to remain anonymous welcomed her newborn baby boy at 01.37am.<\/p>\n<p>Then at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, parents Hannah and Jack Bowers-Orso welcomed their first baby at 2am.<\/p>\n<p>The baby boy, who is yet to be named, weighed in at 6lb 4oz when he arrived three weeks early to make the Christmas morning appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Mum Hannah said: \u201cIt was an extraordinary surprise and it all happened so fast, but happily we were all prepared. We just can\u2019t wait to get to know him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And at 2.31am, Hannah Quinn and Kerr Smith from Edinburgh welcomed their first baby into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Their baby girl, who is yet to be named, weighed in at 6lb 4oz when she arrived at St John\u2019s Hospital, Livingston.<\/p>\n<p>The parents were hoping to make it home in time for Christmas dinner with their new addition.<\/p>\n<p>Mum Hannah said: \u201cShe is the best Christmas present anyone could ask for. It all went so well and we are so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents across Scotland welcomed some very special packages in the early hours of Christmas Day. At Glasgow\u2019s Princess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-654026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115780128121802805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}