Baby New Year

UPDATE:

Wiggins couple Brittaney Warden and Travis McNeill are the proud parents of six-pound 10-ounce Tristan Newsome McNeill, born Jan. 01, 2009, after eight hours of labor. He is 19 inches long.

Dr. Joanna Trus, a 20-year physician, delivered her first New Year's baby.

“We thought he was going to be born at midnight, but was born at 12:01 a.m. on the dot,” McNeill said. “Brittaney and I love him to pieces and cannot wait to have a nice family.”

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Reportedly, the first baby of 2009 in South Mississippi was born at 12:01 a.m. at Memorial Hospital of Gulfport in Harrison County. The child was a boy.

No information is availabe yet on the name of the new arrival and his parents.

Also no information yet on newest arrivals in Jackson County at Singing River Health System's two hospitals in Pascagoula and Ocean Springs and Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis.

ItsYourBirthdayBabies! will wait through New Year's Day to provide a complete update Friday.