Filipina’s baby girl is Edmonton’s New Year’s infant —  born 12:08 a.m.

Baby girl Tia Alona Bocauto was born three weeks before her mother Mila Bocauto’s due date. CBC.CA

EDMONTON, Alberta – A Fil-Canadian infant is Edmonton’s New Year’s baby, born at 12:08 a.m., Jan.1, 2019 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s Lois Hole Hospital for Women.

Baby girl Tia Alona Bocauto was born three weeks before her mother Mila Bocauto’s due date. The baby weighed five pounds, seven ounces and measured 47 centimetres long.

Bocauto, a 43-year-old first-time single mom, told the Edmonton Journal that Baby Tia was the result of fertility treatments. Tia is short for Althia, Bocauto said.

Bocauto emigrated from the Philippines when she was 32, and came to Edmonton seven years ago. She has long wanted to be a mother, she said. Tia, who was born with a crop of dark hair, was due on Jan. 22.