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Mater Mothers’ Hospitals delivers its 300,000th baby
Mater Mothers’ Hospitals delivers its 300,000th baby
Friday, 19 February 2010
Almost 50 years after celebrating the birth of the first baby born at Mater Mothers’ Hospitals, Queensland’s busiest maternity facilities have welcomed the birth of the 300,000th baby born at Mater.
The lucky baby, Alicia Zeneldin was born at 5 pm on Friday 12 February, weighing 3.85 kilograms to parents Natasha and Ramsey Zeneldin.
Since delivering the first baby born at the hospital in 1961, Mater Mothers’ Hospitals have celebrated some amazing milestones, including:
- the first retrieval in Queensland, using former Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s plane in 1977. The baby was retrieved from Charleville and weighed 1100grams
- a visit from Mother Theresa in 1981
- delivering Australia’s smallest surviving baby, Jonathon Heeley weighing 374 grams in 1992. Jonathon is also affectionately known as the ‘coke bottle kid’
- the opening of the new Mater Mothers’ Hospitals 30 May 2008 by Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC Governor of Queensland, Premier Anna Bligh and Most Reverend John A Bathersby DD Archbishop of Brisbane.
One in six Queenslanders are born at Mater Mothers’ Hospitals, with the facilities managing more than 9500 births each year.
Baby Alicia and her family were presented with a commemorative gift and certificate to highlight the important milestone.
