The headline of L’Express de Maurice, this January 1, 2025, catches our attention: “The first babies of 2025 not yet born”. Also, improbable as it may seem, no Mauritian hospital registered a birth in the early hours of New Year’s Eve.
In the sister island, as in Reunion, the press is accustomed to greeting the new born of the year, which has just begun. The winner is on the front page of the newspapers at daybreak. A photo that the chosen one will keep all his life.
At 7 a.m. this Wednesday 1is January 2025, L’Express de Maurice was still waiting for the happy event. As the title underlines, this first baby is wanted, but there is no doubt, it is a matter of minutes. Finally, a little girl decided to end the suspense at 8:55 a.m. The baby was born at Jeetoo Hospital. The child and mother are doing well.
To underline the extraordinary situation, the editor recalls that in 2024 the first Mauritian baby “had shown up shortly after 1:20 a.m. on the 1stis January”.
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