For many families, the new year's countdown resembled the start of a new journey with a little one being welcomed into the world. Across the country, hospitals are celebrating babies born in the first minutes of 2026.

Across Arizona and at all hours of the day and night, a handful of parents rang in their new year with a new child. Meet the families.

At Mount Sinai Hospital, mom Shaniqua Jones and dad Brandon Antwon Whittington welcomed their baby boy, Brandon Alexander. He was born about seven minutes after midnight. Brandon weighed in at 7 pounds and 13 ounces.

Two families in metro Detroit are ringing the new year with a new baby, with the Detroit Medical Center and Corewell Health East announcing the first babies born in the area in 2026.

Parents across Chicago and the suburbs celebrated the new year by welcoming their babies on the first day of 2026.

Allegheny Health Network's Forbes Hospital and UPMC's Magee-Womens Hospital welcomed some of 2026's first babies born in the Pittsburgh area.

The first wave of babies born into the AI-driven Generation Beta arrived minutes after midnight across New Jersey hospitals on New Year's Day.

RICHMOND, Va. — VCU Health shared photos of the first babies born in its downtown Richmond medical center in 2026. Babies welcomed on New Year's Day wore special crowns and VCU Health onesies to commemorate the day. "Congratulations to the happy parents on this unforgettable start to the year!" the hospital wrote on social media.

Babies born in Detroit and Troy shortly after midnight in 2026 are some of Michigan's very first babies of the year.

On New Year's Day, St. Cloud Hospital welcomed St. Cloud's first babies of 2026. Griffin, the new year's first baby, was born at 12:57 a.m. Jan. 1. His parents, central Minnesota residents Mark and Abby Swanson, said it feels special to welcome one of the first babies of the new year.