It might have been the quietest New Year's Eve on record but for some it was the busiest as they welcomed their new bundles of joys.
At hospitals all around Northern Ireland, the stork was busy delivering the first gifts of 2021.
At Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, Rhoda O’Hanlon and Liam McKevitt welcomed a baby son not long after midnight.
Baby Ethan Thomas arrived at 12.26am, weighing 6lb 14.5oz.
A short time later in Craigavon Area Hospital, Charlene and Martin Corrigan, from Benburb, welcomed baby girl, Laoise, who weighed 6lb 10.5oz, at 12.35am.
In Belfast, the first baby born at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital was a boy.
Baby Shanley, who was 8lbs 6oz, arrived at 00.56am yesterday.
Among those who helped Shanley's mother with the birth was student midwife, Mairead Lavery and staff midwives, Sarah Laverty and Heidi McMillan.
At the Ulster Hospital, the first arrival of the new year was baby girl, Willow, who arrived at 3.13am weighing 7lbs 6oz.
Mum, Keely Brennan, from Downpatrick, went into labour at home on New Year's Eve and had made her way to the hospital.
The 25-year-old, who works in the St Patrick's Centre in the Co Down town, took the decision to have a water birth, revealing it all happened "very quickly".
She said she and her partner, Adam McKee, who is also from Downpatrick, decided to name their first born Willow because dad had "loved the name for ages and when he said it, I said `yip', that is definitely for her".
Keely added: "She is perfect. I am in my own wee bubble. I can't believe she is here".
A short time later, at 3.33am at the Ulster Hospital, baby girl Adley Carle was born.
Mum, Shauna Murray, who had not been due to give birth to her first daughter until January 16, had been at the hospital on New Year's Eve for a check up.
But as she was sorting her two sons for bed that night, she went into labour and had to travel from Bangor, across the Craigantlet Hills at midnight to make her way to the Ulster Hospital where Adley was born weighing 4lbs 9ozs.
Speaking to the Irish News, Shauna said she was "over the moon" to welcome her first daughter.
"Before I had her, I had six losses after my second was born and so she is a wee miracle," she said.
At the South West Acute Hospital in Ennsikillen, Fivemiletown couple, Kimberley and Andrew McMahon welcomed a baby boy, who weighed 8lb 1oz at 2.29am.
At Altnagelvin, the first baby of 2021 arrived at 4.15am when Derry mother, Kerri-Lauren Tang, welcomed a baby boy, called Oisin, who weighed 6lb 15oz.
