The new year had barely got under way when little baby Adele made an appearance in Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital.
Her mum Elaina McLeod, 27, from Wellbank was in labour for 24 hours before Adele was born by emergency caesarian section at 00.12am on New Year’s Day.
She and partner Billy Gowans, 25, agreed it was the best start to 2014.
“It makes it more special,” Elaina said. “It’s a new start to a new year.”
Adele was 8lb 6oz and big sister Kyann, 8, was in quickly to visit the new baby.
Paula and John Nowakowski from Dundee welcomed first baby Ivy Ella to the world at 3.12am.
Ivy Ella was four weeks early and was due on January 29.
“It’s a nice surprise,” Paula, 35, said. “I was taken in on Monday night because my waters had gone. She’s our first.”
Lexi Leigh Simpson was born at 11.35am weighing 6lb and 5oz, the youngest of three girls.
Mum Lorraine, 22, from Dundee said: “My other two Alisha and Jessica were both born in January so it will be busy in my house.”
Fife’s midwives were given a slow start to 2014 with just two babies making an appearance in the early hours of the new year.
Liz McMurchie from Victoria Hospital said that it had been a “quiet night”, with staff delivering one baby late in the morning, and another a few hours later.