{"id":655150,"date":"2025-12-26T03:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655150\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:17:23","slug":"christmas-day-baby-joy-at-belfast-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655150\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day baby joy at Belfast hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were a number of special arrivals on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

There was new-born joy at the Royal Victoria and Ulster hospitals on Thursday.<\/p>\n

One of the first to enter the world was little Mirrah Mariam Manu who was born at 12.25am on Christmas morning, weighing in at 6lbs 3oz.<\/p>\n

\"PressChristmas Day mum Jesna Antony and her baby daughter Mirrah Mariam Manu. PICTURE: KELVIN BOYES\/PRESSEYE \"PressLittle Mirrah Mariam Manu was first to arrive at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald. PICTURE: KELVIN BOYES\/PRESSEYE <\/p>\n

There were more arrivals at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, including a beautiful baby daughter for Margaret Watiri and Chris McKenna. <\/p>\n

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Their baby girl weighed 8lb 11oz and was born at 3.36am. <\/p>\n

Doting grandmothers Esther McKenna and Josephine Goedert were there to join the festive celebrations.<\/p>\n

\"PacemakerMargaret Watiri and baby girl (8lb11oz) that was born at 3.36am, pictured with Dad Chris McKenna and grandmothers Esther McKenna and Josephine Goedert. PICTURE: ARTHUR ALLISON\/PACEMAKER <\/p>\n

And also at the Royal, Chloe Coggles welcomed a baby boy into the world at 9.37am, weighing 7lb 06oz.<\/p>\n

\"PacemakerMum Chloe Coggles and her baby boy (7lb 06oz) that was born at 9:57am. PICTURE: ARTHUR ALLISON\/PACEMAKER <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a number of special arrivals on Christmas Day. There was new-born joy at the Royal Victoria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,35745,64468,1144,15288,16,133753,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-655150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-dundonald","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-ulster-hospital","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115783706895094190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655150","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=655150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}