It's a girl! B.C. welcomes first baby of 2018 seconds after midnight

The first baby to be born in British Columbia this year made her way into the province just nine seconds after midnight.

The baby girl, who doesn't have a name yet, wasdeliveredat Surrey Memorial Hospitalweighingeight pounds, sevenounces.

She's the first child forparents Manpreet Kaur NijjarandHardip Singh Shergill, who moved to Canada two years ago.

"It's great," said mom Manpreetof having the province's first baby of the year. "I'm happy. Before I was nervous [about being a first-time parent,] but now I'm happy."

The baby was born by C-section, more than a weekafter missing herdue date on Christmas Eve.

It's the second timein a row that B.C.'s first babyof the year hasbeen born moments after the countdown ends 2017's first baby,Montgomery, was also born right at midnight.

He was delivered atB.C. Women's Hospital to parents Dana and Peter Harlos,weighingeight pounds, 14 ounces.

More 'firsts'

Other health authorities also announcedthe first babies of 2018 for their regions on Monday morning.

The first forsouthwest B.C. arrived at Squamish General Hospital at 12:50 a.m., weighing six pounds, eight ounces. On Vancouver Island, another babywas born in Nanaimoat 1:23 a.m. The newborn weighed nine pounds, 11 ounces.

A baby girl named Camilla was born in northern B.C. at 7:25 a.m. She arrived in Dawson Creek to parents Tricia and Ryan, as well as her big brother Emmett.

"Congrats to the proud parents and their families," Island Health wrote in a tweet.

With files from Jesse Johnston