Little Moussa is, according to our information, the first baby born in the Alpes-Maritimes in 2025. He came into the world this Wednesday, January 1, at 3:14 a.m., at L'Archet 2 hospital in Nice, with three weeks left. 'advance. It weighs 3.5kg.
“It’s a new adventure that begins”enthuses his mother, Mayssa, 27, as she buttons the little boy's navy blue onesie.
The young woman gives life for the first time. She is doing well and says to herself “in shape” despite a long labor. “I arrived at the maternity ward on December 31 at 7:30 a.m.,” she adds, contemplating, touched, the adorable little face of her infant.
Three other babies were born in the morning at the Nice University Hospital maternity ward, all boys.
Reem, last baby of 2024 at L’Archet
At L'Archet 2 hospital, the last baby of 2024 is a little girl, Reem, born at 10:39 p.m. on December 31, 2024.
“This is the 10th baby of the day of December 31 and the 3374th baby of the year 2024 born”smiles Dr. Marie Cid, obstetrician-gynecologist.
“It’s less than in 2023. This confirms the decline in the birth rate in France”she adds.
In 2023, 3,568 births were recorded at Archet and 3,543 in 2022.
Every year, the service organizes a bet on the number of births in the past year. Everyone, doctors, midwives, nurses, childcare workers, auxiliaries, play the game and bet 2 euros on the number of their choice. “We stop voting two weeks before the end of the year so that it is not too easyadds Dr. Cid. And we wait for the results by organizing a meal. Everyone brings something. We have dinner together if it's quiet. Otherwise it's as best we can. This year, it was Camille, a midwife, who won. We all take a photo together with the final figure written on a piece of paper.”
Fewer births than in 2023 in Nice and Cagnes
At the Kantys maternity ward of the Santa Maria Polyclinic, 2,606 babies were born in 2024, compared to 2,784 in 2023. The first of 2025 was born at 9:22 a.m. in this establishment.
At the maternity ward of the Saint-Jean clinic in Cagnes-sur-Mer, 647 births were recorded in 2024, compared to 702 in 2023. No baby was born on the night of New Year's Eve. The last birth was on December 30.
In Monaco, no infant has appeared in the night from 2024 to 2025. We still do not know how many babies were born in the maternity ward of the Princess Grace Hospital Center in 2024, the figures having not been counted. In 2023, there were 804 and 862 in 2022. 70% of families were domiciled outside the Principality, most of them coming from the communes of Menton, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and Beausoleil.
Maternity hospitals in the Alpes-Maritimes recorded 10,631 babies born in 2024, compared to 10,631 the previous year, a drop of 3.8%, which corresponds to 421 births. This decline is more marked in the east of the department. In the west, the number of births is almost stable, and even slightly increasing in Antibes, which is an exception.
The first baby west of the Alpes-Maritimes is Antibes
In the west of the department, the prize goes to Antibes which recorded its first birth of the year at 6:58 a.m. Will the maternity ward of the Antibes Juan-les-Pins Hospital Center, which recorded 962 births in 2024 and 947 in 2023, do better this year?
At the Clavary Hospital Center in Grasse, the first baby of the year 2025 was born at 9:34 a.m.
In 2024, 1,808 births were recorded in the City of Perfumes, compared to 1,815 in 2023.
Finally, the maternity ward of the Simone-Veil hospital in Cannes recorded its first birth at 12:29 p.m.
Within it, the year 2024 ended with 1,234 new babies, two fewer than in 2023 when 1,236 births were recorded.
