{"id":141600,"date":"2017-01-05T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141600\/four-christmas-babies-for-bertha-gxowa-hospital\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:31:35","slug":"four-christmas-babies-for-bertha-gxowa-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/05\/four-christmas-babies-for-bertha-gxowa-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Christmas babies for Bertha Gxowa Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four families received the greatest gift of all this Christmas, when they each welcomed a baby to the world.<\/p>\n

The staff members of the Bertha Gxowa Hospital, were thrilled to welcome the new bundles of joy.<\/p>

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The first baby was born at the hospital at 1.05am to Lethiwe Methula. The baby girl, named Tondaha, weighed 2.985kg and was 51cm in length at birth, with a head circumference of 35cm.<\/p>\n

The baby however, was taken to the neo-natal ICU, where she was placed in an incubator for observation.<\/p>

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Dorcus Nelson, Boitumelo Kau and Nive Kahozi also welcomed their bundles of Christmas joy at the hospital.<\/p>\n

As it was the season to be jolly, representatives of the metro shared in the joy of welcoming the hospital\u2019s Christmas babies.<\/p>\n

MMC for health and social services, Clr Dorah Mlambo, handed over essential baby hampers to the mothers of the first three babies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish the mothers and the babies nothing but good health and happiness,\u201d Mlambo said.<\/p>\n