Happy Easter sees 146 babies born

PORT Moresby General Hospital set a record for babies during the Easter weekend with 146.
According to hospital records, it was the highest number of babies born over the long weekend.
In previous years, the number had remained below 100.
The hospital said 67 babies were girls and 79 boys, with nine weighing 4kg.
Among the mothers who delivered was Port Moresby General Hospital nurse Natasha Tai.
Tai gave birth to a baby boy in the early hours of Good Friday.
She thanked her colleagues for taking care of her at the labour and post-natal wards. The baby tipped the scale at 3.9kg and was her second child.
Tai said felt blessed to have given birth on Good Friday.
Goroka went opposite to Port Moresby General Hospital and delivered the least number of babies at Easter – 10.
Sister in-charge at the Goroka Provincial Hospital labour ward Ergua Elsa said: “We usually deliver more than 10 babies on special days like Easter, Christmas and New Year but this Easter we recorded one of the lowest. Five were boys and five girls.”
Morobe’s only referral hospital, Aangau Hospital in Lae, delivered 56 Easter babies.
Labour ward assistant nursing manager Sr Esther Okona said mothers and babies were doing fine with no complications.
“On Good Friday, 24 babies were delivered, Saturday 14 babies and Easter Sunday 18,” she said.
“The babies are all healthy, with the heaviest weighing 4.16kg and then 4.12kg. According to the Angau Hospital 2017 annual report, more than 8000 babies are born each year since 2013.
Veronica Yori Xuen, 24, from Bundi in Madang, has been having big babies.
Her latest on Sunday was 3.7kg. Her first in 2016 was a boy weighing 3.9kg and her second in 2017, a boy, weighed 4.1kg. She was one of the five mothers who gave birth on Easter Sunday at Madang Modilon.