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Columbia Couple 1st To Welcome New Year's Baby In Howard County
A Columbia couple happens to be the 1st to welcome a New Year's baby in Howard County. Their baby boy weighed 6 pounds and 9.1 ounces.
HOWARD COUNTY, MD — The first baby born in 2025 in Howard County had a due date of Christmas Eve, but the newborn had different plans.
Jiyeong Jang and Sanghoon Shin have been married for 10 years and live in Columbia. They welcomed Joshua Heesung Shin at 3:27 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 1, at Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds and 9.1 ounces, and measured 20 inches.
“We’ve been married for 10 years, and after 10 years of marriage, we finally got our little boy,” Shin told The Baltimore Sun.
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“We tried to have him for a very long time, like almost two and a half years, and finally we got him. So, after he was born, I was really happy, and I cannot believe it and I cannot still believe it, and I’m really thankful for that,” Jang added.
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