{"id":486172,"date":"2026-01-02T03:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:17:21","slug":"meet-linda-fort-worths-first-baby-of-2026-born-at-the-stroke-of-midnight-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486172\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Linda, Fort Worth&#8217;s first baby of 2026, born at the stroke of midnight on New Year&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Peter Smith Hospital welcomed one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/tarrant-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Tarrant County<\/a>&#8216;s first babies of 2026 right at the stroke of midnight on New Year&#8217;s Day, hospital officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Baby girl Linda Mohamed was born at exactly 12 a.m. on Jan. 1 to parents Bashair and Abdellatif Mohamed, making her JPS&#8217; first baby of the new year. Hospital officials said Linda Mohamed weighed nearly 7 pounds and measured 21 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c0c1bde9-7116-4050-9a73-55182a41f8b2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"c0c1bde9-7116-4050-9a73-55182a41f8b2.jpg \" height=\"432\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The Mohamed family is starting 2026 as a family of five. Linda Mohamed is the couple&#8217;s third child, according to JPS.<\/p>\n<p>                Brian Maschino \/ JPS Health Network<\/p>\n<p>The Mohamed family is starting 2026 as a family of five. Linda Mohamed is the couple&#8217;s third child, according to JPS.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery team included first-year resident Dr. Lauren Kwiatkowski, attending physician Dr. Stephanie Taylor and nurse Tatum Ransom, hospital officials said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d0f2e500-8dc0-4ac8-aa26-0d5165ab6d99.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"d0f2e500-8dc0-4ac8-aa26-0d5165ab6d99.jpg \" height=\"420\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Baby girl Linda Mohamed was born at 12:00 a.m. on Jan. 1 to parents Bashair and Abdellatif Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>                Brian Maschino \/ JPS Health Network<\/p>\n<p>JPS delivers an average of 5,000 babies each year, accounting for roughly 20% of all births in Tarrant County, the JPS Health Network said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>JPS Health Network operates a 582-bed hospital and more than 25 community clinics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First twins of the New Year arrive in Grapevine<\/p>\n<p>At Baylor Scott &amp; White Medical Center Grapevine, another North Texas family rang in the New Year with a special delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/twin-brothers-ring-in-2026-as-the-first-babies-born-in-grapevine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Twin boys William and Elliot were born<\/a> shortly after midnight on New Year&#8217;s Day, with the first arriving at 1:16 a.m. and his brother following two minutes later, hospital officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The parents said they were surprised \u2014 and thrilled \u2014 to learn they were the first family to welcome twins in 2026, a distinction confirmed after hospital staff checked with other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The twins arrived a bit earlier than expected and are receiving extra care, but hospital officials said everyone is doing well, and the parents are excited to hold their sons soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Peter Smith Hospital welcomed one of Tarrant County&#8216;s first babies of 2026 right at the stroke of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,8963,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-486172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-tarrant-county","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115823341984993525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}