In photos: Christmas Day infants born in Northern Eire hospitals

There have been glad tidings at Northern Eire hospitals yesterday as households welcomed bundles of pleasure into the world on Christmas Day.

roud dad and mom have been celebrating festive newborns at maternity wards throughout the area.

Midwives have been amongst these working by the vacations to assist ship infants, sharing smiles with new mums and dads as they posed for images yesterday.

On the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Stacey Jordan and Curtis Moore posed with their new child lady.

In the meantime, on the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, Narisse Heaney and associate Taylor Woods from Lisburn have been celebrating the arrival of their child Maya, who weighed 7lb 1oz and was born at 4.36am.

One of many first arrivals got here when Paula Elliott from Newtownards gave start to a boy weighing 7lb 2oz at 12.29am yesterday on the Ulster Hospital.