John Peter Smith Hospital welcomed one of Tarrant County’s first babies of 2026 right at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day, hospital officials announced Thursday.
Baby girl Linda Mohamed was born at exactly 12 a.m. on Jan. 1 to parents Bashair and Abdellatif Mohamed, making her JPS’ first baby of the new year. Hospital officials said Linda Mohamed weighed nearly 7 pounds and measured 21 inches long.
The Mohamed family is starting 2026 as a family of five. Linda Mohamed is the couple’s third child, according to JPS.
The delivery team included first-year resident Dr. Lauren Kwiatkowski, attending physician Dr. Stephanie Taylor and nurse Tatum Ransom, hospital officials said.
JPS delivers an average of 5,000 babies each year, accounting for roughly 20% of all births in Tarrant County, the JPS Health Network said in a press release…