Nunavik’s first baby was also Quebec’s first

Nunavik’s first baby of the year was also Quebec’s first baby of the year. Joanasie Junior, son of Taqaq Ningiurluut and Joanasie Usuituayuk, was born two minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal.

Both parents are from Salluit. Joanasie weighed seven pounds, 14 ounces.

“He sleeps a lot,” his mother said at a press conference at the hospital. “He hasn’t cried since he was born.”

Ningiurluut, 36, has two other boys, age five and two. She came to Montreal to deliver, with little Joanasie arriving a few days earlier than expected.