Christmas babies born across Scotland

PA Media New parents Nadejda Bulgaru, 25, and Stefan Dobroviceanu, 31, from Edinburgh, with their baby daughter Selena, who was born at 02:44am on Christmas Day morning at Edinburgh Royal InfirmaryPA Media
New parents Nadejda Bulgaru and Stefan Dobroviceanu with their baby daughter Selena, who was born at 02:44 in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Parents across Scotland are celebrating the birth of their Christmas babies.

Potentially the first child born on Christmas Day in Scotland arrived at 00:39 at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

Baby Robyn weighed in at 7lb 8oz when she was born to Nicola and Calum Lawson.

Later, Chloe McKee gave birth to 8lb 11oz son Rio at 03:16 in the Princess Royal Maternity Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

And Emma Dolan's daughter Bailey was born in the same ward at about 05:10, weighing in at 5lb 13oz.

The first baby born on Christmas Day in Edinburgh arrived at 02:44.

Baby Selena was born to parents Nadejda Bulgaru and Stefan Dobroviceanu at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

The new addition to the family weighed 7lbs 4oz when she was born, according to staff at the hospital.

In the north east of Scotland, Alex Currie was born at 04:32 at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital to mother Margaret and father Daniel. 

Lanarkshire babies

University Hospital Wishaw (UHW) in Lanarkshire welcomed their first Christmas baby, weighing in at 7lb 2oz at 06:05.

Parents Roopa and Seben Devassia have not yet decided on his name.

About an hour and a half later another boy, whose name has not been decided yet by parents Kirsten Moore and Dean Patterson, was born at 07:34 weighing 8lb 2oz.

Parents Jennifer Brown and Declan Mcmeekin also welcomed a baby boy at UHW at 09:24 who weighed 6lb 15oz.