2024-01-01 06:24:10
At Nice University Hospital, midwives were mobilized like every evening on the night of December 31 to January 1 to welcome the last babies of 2023, then the newborns of 2024.
The midwives were hard at work during the night from Sunday to Monday January 1 to welcome the newborns of the year 2024. BFMTV spent part of the night alongside them.
At 11:25 p.m., little Lilya, weighing 3kg800, shows up at the Nice University Hospital. She is officially the last Nice resident to be born in 2023.
“We cry with joy, there is a lot of emotion,” his father, Youssef, confides to our microphone.
For Laure, the midwife mobilized for the birth, this birth was a bit special. “It was important to him that his little one was born in 2023 and not in 2024, so it’s a done deal,” she says.
“We leave an impression”
If the midwife considers that births are her “daily”, she recognizes that working on December 31 can be a little different.
“It’s been twice since I’ve been working here that I’ve given birth to the last baby of the year. We’re making an impression,” she believes.
The evening of December 31 to January 1 does not offer any particular respite at Nice University Hospital and requires the mobilization of all nursing staff. The maternity ward’s first born of 2024 is born at 3:34 a.m.
Between work and festivities
In the Rhône, the evening is calmer at the Lyon University Hospital. The midwives allow themselves some festivities around raclette while never being far from their patients.
There is “rather a friendly atmosphere with the doctors and midwives”, underlines Delphine, childcare assistant, at the microphone of BFM Lyon.
“It’s an evening that’s not like the others because there’s a party atmosphere,” she admits, before recalling: “in the delivery room, anything can happen all the time.”
Between 11 p.m. Sunday evening and 3 a.m. this Monday, no birth took place in this maternity ward. Around some tarama toast and slices of salmon, the caregivers gently celebrated the transition to 2024.
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