Welcome Arman

Upper Austria’s New Year’s baby arrived at 0.49 am

Arman in the arms of nurse Ester Souza, with colleague Sylvia Landgraf and behind them his parents Lusine and Harutyun(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / WERNER KERSCHBAUMMAYR)

"The main thing is to be healthy!" That's usually the motto when a baby is born, whether a boy or a girl. On New Year's Eve, however, it's also about who wins the title of "New Year's baby". In Upper Austria, Arman made it at Steyr Hospital. A girl in Styria is likely to have won the nationwide title.

At the Murtal Hospital in Judenburg, Luisa was born at five minutes past midnight, slightly heavier and taller than Arman. And also in Carinthia, a girl gave her first cry shortly before the baby in Steyr: Marie was born at 0.44 am. Frederick in Amstetten is Lower Austria's New Year's baby and was born at 1.28 am.

Governor among the first well-wishers
This meant that Arman, who was briefly "in the lead", was not Austria's New Year's baby after all, but that doesn't matter to the parents, who can hold their first baby in their arms: "Mother and child are healthy, everything else doesn't matter." "The Upper Austrian New Year's baby of 2025 is called Arman and was born at 00:49 in the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Clinic in Steyr. Arman weighed 3380 grams and was 53 centimeters tall at birth. His parents live in Steyr," according to an official statement from the province of Upper Austria. Of course, Governor Thomas Stelzer also offered his congratulations and there was also a welcome gift.