Emerson Perrine will never have to explain when his birthday is. He arrived at 1:53 a.m. on Halloween, Oct. 31, 2026, the first baby born that day at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, and the fourth child for Cady and Nate Perrine of Milton, Florida, according to a hospital news release published by FOX 10.
He weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 20.5 inches long. The release opens with the line, “What a treat to have a Halloween birthday!”
The family behind the birth
Both Cady and Nate Perrine are graduates of Pensacola Christian College, the release says. They own Revival Coffee, a Christian coffee shop in Milton, a town in northwest Florida. The release does not give the couple’s other children’s names or ages, and it does not say how long Cady Perrine was in labor.
The hospital supplied the details itself. Ascension Sacred Heart has also provided photos and announcements for other milestone births this year and last, and local outlets have carried them.
A hospital that tracks its holiday babies
The Halloween birth is one of several the hospital has marked. On Jan. 2, 2025, WKRG reported that Everly, born at 12:09 a.m. to Maegan Mapoles and Brian Allen of Pensacola, was Ascension Sacred Heart’s first New Year’s baby, according to a hospital release. She weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce and was one of seven babies born at the hospital on Jan. 1…