Meet the first baby to be born in Manchester in 2024

Meet Norah, the first baby born in Manchester in 2024. Parents Katy Green and Sanam Sidhu welcomed their adorable daughter into the world at 18 minutes past midnight on New Year's Day at St Mary's Hospital.

She weighed 6lbs and 13oz. Norah was the first of 22 New Year babies born in Manchester hospitals today.

They included eight at Wythenshawe Hospital, 12 at the Oxford Road campus and two at North Manchester General.

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Elsewhere there was New Year's Day joy for a mum who suffered nine heart-breaking baby losses. Navdeep Kaur, 35, gave birth to a daughter just 36 minutes into the New Year.

Said her little girl was the 'best surprise' after the 7lb 9oz tot was born in Walsall, Nottinghamshire Live reports. The healthcare support assistant has polycystic ovarian disease, which means her ovaries produce an abnormal amount of male sex hormones called androgens.

Women with the condition carry an increased risk of having miscarriages and stillbirths. And after years of setbacks, Navdeep and her husband Iqbal Singh Kanwal had 'given up' hope of having another child to join their daughter Jaskirat, 10.

Navdeep said: "The baby is just the best surprise and I hope my story gives hope to others.”