(WAND) - A few lucky parents welcomed New Year's Day babies across Central Illinois on Thursday. 

At Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Arabella was born at 8:46 this morning. Her parents, Daniel and Aleesha of Rantoul, said she came at a healthy seven pounds, nine ounces. 

Arabella is the couple's first child. 

In Decatur, hospital staff helped welcome a couple of New Year's babies. 

Athena came in at just under seven pounds in the early morning hours. Her mother shared that she had to be induced into labor, but is happy to have her little girl. 

"This is my second one and my first girl too, so it feels amazing. But I never expected to have a New Year baby like this," she said. 

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