By Gazette Staff
January 2nd, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
It wasn’t Hibah Abdellatif’s first visit to the maternity ward.
Abdellatif family celebrates the birth of their third girl.
Her third child was born at Joseph Brant Hospital at 9:09 am on January 1st.
Hana Abdellatif is the first baby to be born at Joseph Brant Hospital (JBH) in 2026, The child weighed 7 pounds and 1 ounce.
Hibah and Mohamed Abdellatif of Oakville spent New Year’s Eve celebrating when, in the early hours of January 1, Hibah went into labor. They welcomed the new year with the arrival of their third daughter, Hana.
“It was a smooth delivery,” said Mohamed. “The nurses joked with us that we should come back next year to deliver another baby because of how smoothly it went.”
In keeping with a time-honoured New Year’s tradition, Hana and her parents were presented with a gift from the hospital.
More than 1,500 babies were delivered at JBH in 2025. The physicians, midwives and nurses in the hospital’s Labour and Delivery unit provide excellent, quality care to pregnant, labouring persons and newborns.
After delivery, parents and newborns move to the Maternal & Child unit, which provides a broad range of care and services to address the physical and emotional needs of families before and after delivery.
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