Fabella welcomes first baby girl of 2025

MANILA, Philippines — A healthy baby girl became the first member of the Philippines’ so-called Generation Beta, or babies born from 2025 to 2039.

Doctors at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila reported that a baby girl named Alea Jayde Razo was born at exactly 12 a.m. yesterday.

Lea Mae Razo, 27, was supposed to give birth on Jan. 4, but delivered her first child on New Year’s Day.

Razo had been in labor for almost 24 hours.

She wished for her baby to stay healthy and grow up with discipline and fear of God.

Midwife May Alipio said she was overjoyed to assist in the delivery of this year’s first baby.

Four normal deliveries were recorded at the hospital from midnight to 7 a.m. yesterday, according to the hospital’s outgoing senior health officer Dr. Jeglen Cruz.

Eleven other normal deliveries were recorded at the hospital on Dec. 31, from 8 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., Cruz told dwPM Radyo 630.

Newborn babies and their mothers did not receive benefits from the hospital this New Year “since there were no sponsors,” Cruz told GMA News.

The first New Year baby in 2024 at the hospital was reportedly gifted with essentials, such as clothing.

Generation Beta is anticipated to be extremely technologically savvy. –Ghio Ong