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1999's First Baby
The Straits Times
|January 17, 2025
Boy makes surprise early entrance
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Madam Tina Samat had planned to have a January baby because she felt it would give him a headstart in life.
But the overjoyed mother never expected her newborn son to make the headlines for being Singapore's first baby of the year, when he made his entrance some three weeks earlier than expected at 12.05 am yesterday at Gleneagles Hospital.
This story is from the January 17, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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