Two hundred babies are born on a typical month at Blackpool Victoria Hospital – and our colleagues and their families are often among people celebrating a birth.
We asked them to share their beautiful babies with us and these are just some of the pictures we received to mark the 75th birthday of the NHS.
Among the contributors is Medical Examiners’ Officer Paula Dimery who had both her babies at the Vic. Son Jordan was born in January 1996 and her second daughter Abigail in September 2023.
She said: “My stay in hospital the second time inspired me to want to work in the NHS and the following year I began work as a healthcare assistant on Ward B obstetrics and gynaecology. Abigail is now 19 and a healthcare assistant working on Ward C.”
Training Coordinator Andrea Hammond’s son, Harry, was born on New Year’s Eve 2017. “Jade a newly qualified midwife made sure I had the best and most comfortable experience possible,” she said.
“After 15 years of fertility treatment, I then caught naturally. I can never thank Blackpool maternity for all the support and safely delivering our son.”
Click any picture to start the gallery …
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- Amelia Isabelle ‘Mia’ Cuenza (27 Sept 2022)
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- Grace Stanley Mitchinson (1 Feb 2019)
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- Joseph James William Acton Patterson (26 June 2004)
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- Twins Beckie and Karlie Manton (7 June 2002)
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- Cailin Cunningham (26 May 2013)
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- Casey Cunningham (8 Aug 2019)
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- Ciara Cunningham (25 Feb 2012)
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- Deandrea Malicdem (March 2023)
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- Emily Jo Mills (30 March 2019)
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- George Dawson (19 Oct 2009)
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- Harry Hammond (31 Dec 2017)
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- Holly Heywood (1 Dec 2011)
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- Hope McNeill (Nov 2015)
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- Jordan (Jan 1996) and Abby Dimery (Sept 2003)
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- Joseph Edward Mills (15 June 2014)
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- Maggie Brown (28 October 2020)
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- Martha McNeill (Nov 2015)
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- Nate Eaton (25 Nov 2014)
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- Niamh Rose Wallace (28 May 2021)
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- Nicole Rowland (12 Mar 1996)
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- Oliver Crosby (31 Oct 2020)
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- Owen Eaton (11 Jan 2018)
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- Rosie Bailey-Brocklebank (9 Sept 2020)
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- Sienna Hayward (May 2020) with Xander (Sept 2012) and Leon (Jan 2014)
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- William Connor (15 April 2020)
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- Zara Celikkilic (28 Oct 2010)
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- William James Hesketh (27 Nov 2014)
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- Theodore Partington (13 Jan 2023)
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- Scarlett Ivy Daisy Sutherland (15 Mar 2018)
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- Scarlett Annie Cooke 131117 (13 Nov 2017)
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- Reuben Oliver Matthew Fort (11 Mar 2015)
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- Reign Maddison Manio (22 Dec 2021)
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- Reece William David Billington (29 Mar 2005)
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- Ollie Cole Walkden-Owen (26 Mar 2019)
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- Oliver McDonald (12 Oct 2015)
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- Junior Barry Thomas Sutherland (22 July 2016)
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- Leah Rose Bates (7 Aug 2019)
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- Logan Sourzac (17 Feb 2013)
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- Lola-Mai Moss (29 July 2014)
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- Lola Mae Michelbach (17 Oct 2010)
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- Maeva Rose D’Arcy (3 Dec 2019)
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- Matilda Angela Baker (1 Oct 2022)
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- Matilda Briscoe 100521 (10 May 2021)
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- Max Celikkilic (21 Sept 2017)
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- Joseph Roy Gaul (25 Jan 2023)
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- Jacob Parker Bond (15 April 2016)
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- Ivy Rose Kay (9 Mar 2023)
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- Henry Briscoe (8 Oct 2015)
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- Henry Bell (23 Mar 2023)
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- Heather Anne Barnes (9 Sept 1997)
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- Hattie Fawcett (7 Jan 2022)
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- Harvey Sourzac (1 Sept 2009)
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- Freddie Blackmore (31 Mar 2015) w/brother Daniel
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- Harry Celikkilic (21 Sept 2011)
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- Freddie Benson (5 Oct 2016)
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- Frankie Charlie Joshua Sutherland (4 April 2022)
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- Florence Crossley (25 July 2022)
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- Eve Frances Selby (18 May 2013)
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- Emilia Jump (20 June 2022)
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- Elliott John Selby (10 Dec 2017) with sister Eve
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- Charlotte Beatrice Rose Faulkes (14 Aug 2016)
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- Bobby Edward Bentley (30 April 2021)
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- Betsy-Rae Benson (30 Oct 2019)
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- Blake Crossley (24 July 2015)
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- Archie Oldendorp (25 Dec 2014)
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- Alfie Robert Walter Faulkes (12 Dec 2018)
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- Adora Hilton (26 Dec 2019) w/midwife
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- James Dickinson (12 Jan 2018)