Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Duy Anh - Director of the Central Maternity Hospital, Dr. Phan Thi Thu Nga - Deputy Head of the Examination Department and the entire team happily welcomed the first baby born by natural birth with emotion.
Born at 37 weeks and 2 days, the mother had a history of gestational diabetes, the baby boy was named Nguyen To Tue Minh by his parents, weighing 3.5kg, the second child of To Thi Thuy Dung, born in 1994, and Nguyen Thanh Tu, born in 1990, currently living in Dong Anh, Hanoi. Immediately after birth, the baby was placed skin-to-skin with his mother. As the first baby born at the hospital in 2025, the baby was marked and given a bracelet with the code 001.
Emotionally holding their newborn son, Ms. Dung and her husband said: "My family is very happy and very lucky that our baby was born healthy at the very sacred moment between the old year and the new year. I am very grateful to the doctors for taking such good care of me and my baby."
Happy to share the joy with the family of the pregnant woman at the beginning of the new year, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Duy Anh - Director of the Central Maternity Hospital visited, encouraged, gave gifts and directly cut the umbilical cord for baby Tue Minh.
"The greatest joy of an obstetrician is to welcome angels into the world. Babies are the happiness of the family and of society. I am very lucky to be able to cut the umbilical cord of the baby. I hope that all mothers will have a safe delivery, the mother will recover quickly, and the baby will eat well and grow quickly. The doctors wish the baby to be good and kind in the future. This is the first wish that our hospital always gives to babies when they are born," shared Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duy Anh.
During the New Year's Eve shift, the Obstetrics Department (Central Obstetrics Hospital) has nearly 20 doctors and nurses on duty in the Obstetrics Department; not to mention other doctors and nurses and medical staff on duty for epidural anesthesia, neonatal care, and emergency resuscitation, always ready for work.
In 2024, the Central Maternity Hospital successfully deployed many advanced techniques, saving the lives of thousands of premature newborns weighing 400-500 grams, performing many pregnancy retention surgeries, and providing emergency care to pregnant women with uterine rupture, circulatory arrest, and serious diseases such as placenta accreta... creating many remarkable obstetric miracles.
