First Bay Area baby born in 2026 appears to be in San Leandro

New Bay Area parents retell their New Year’s Day 2026 stories as a day they’ll never forget

What are the chances that a new chapter for a family begins at the start of a new year? Some might call it coincidence, serendipity, fortuitous or just good fortune. But for a handful of Bay Area couples in San Jose and San Leandro, they called it a newborn — the firsts in the Bay Area to grace the year 2026. The newest Bay Area residents came in quick succession on Jan. 1, with two babies born at Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center at …

First Bay Area Baby of the New Year Appears to Have Been Born In San Leandro

There was a baby boy born in San Leandro just a few minutes after midnight last night, making him likely to have been the Bay Area's first birth of 2026.

First Bay Area baby born in 2026 appears to be in San Leandro

(BCN) -- A baby boy born in San Leandro appears to be the first Bay Area baby born in 2026. The boy was born at 12:03 a.m. at Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center. He was shortly followed by another birth, a baby girl born at 12:07 a.m. at a Kaiser Permanente hospital as well. The two babies appear to have been the only two Bay Area babies born in the first hour of the new year. The names of the two babies and their parents are not immed…