It’s a girl! First baby of 2019 at MUHC born just after midnight

Quebec welcomed its first bouncing baby of the New Year just two minutes past the stroke of midnight.

Mariella was born at 12:02 a.m. on New Year’s Day in the birthing centre of the Royal Victoria Hospital at the Glen site in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Mariella’s parents, Resi Olimpia Lachaine and Martin Lachaine of Montreal, donated their girl’s umbilical cord blood.

The stem cells found in the cord blood will be used to develop a new transplant technique that may save the lives of adults suffering from leukemia or lymphoma, according to the MUHC.

 

Widecells Group PLC (LON:WDC) are leading a transformation in cord blood banking and stem cell treatment; making cord blood banking more accessible through insurance coverage, and increasing the availability of cord blood for transplants.

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