Beverly Hospital Welcomes Baby Xailah As First 2024 Newborn

BEVERLY, MA — Beverly Hospital on Monday welcomed baby Xailah as its first newborn of 2024.

Xailah was born at 8:20 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and measuring 20 inches long, to parents Fynesse Phillip and Rufus Hall, of Beverly.

Xailah clearly wanted to get a jump on the new year as she was an early arrival 12 days ahead of her due date. She joins her older sister, Mileena, who turns 2 years old this month, and her 11-year-old stepbrother, De'Andre.

"I thought I had two weeks to go, but by noon or 1 p.m. on New Year's Eve, I realized the contractions were not going away," Fynesse Phillip said.

The hospital presented the family with a special gift basket in celebration of Xailah being its first baby of 2024.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)