Couple’s firstborn is Hong Kong’s first baby in Year of the Dog
Mother of year’s first baby in Beijing says she is glad she and her daughter are both born in Year of the Dog
It is a girl! At the stroke of midnight on Friday, Hong Kong welcomed its first baby of the Year of the Dog.
Cries could be heard in an operating theatre in Hong Kong Baptist Hospital in Kowloon Tong. But for Ric Fung, it was tears of joy and relief – his wife Serena Lam had just delivered a baby girl weighing 2.4kg (5lbs 6oz) after about 20 hours of labour.
“Before that, I noticed that my wife was in a lot of pain and I was worried that she might need a surgery,” he said. “But she somehow managed to deliver the baby naturally, and when I saw both of them safe, I was very touched.
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“The medical team here did a good job.”
The baby girl, Stefanie, is the couple’s first born, and had reached full term at the time of delivery.
Fung and Lam, both 31, met in secondary school, and after being together for more than 10 years, decided it was time for a new phase in their lives.
“A family is more complete with a baby,” Lam, who is a civil servant, said.
As for their baby, the parents, both Hongkongers, said they just wished her happiness and health, and were not too worried about her education yet.