Christmas Day mother Jean Arruda said December 25 was the one day of the year she did not want to have a baby.

?What are we going to do for her birthday?? Mrs. Arruda asked yesterday from the maternity ward at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

The baby was one of two born on Christmas Day, posing the impossible dilemma for two sets of parents of how to celebrate their children?s birthdays when all attention is on that other birthday.

The other baby was Jaureese Douglas, who weighed five pounds, three ounces. Jaureese and his mother Vinnette Douglas had already been discharged from the Maternity Ward at KEMH yesterday.

The Arrudas? as yet un-named baby girl was not due to be born until January 4, but her mother said her doctor had told her that the stress of the holidays can make babies arrive a little early.

?She is wonderfully healthy,? she said. ?That?s the important thing.?

Mrs. Arruda said yesterday her seven-pound, four-ounce baby girl still did not have a name.

?We had a name, but now that we looked at her she does not look like her name so we have to come up with another one,? Mrs. Arruda said. ?The only thing she really needs is a name.?

But she said the arrival of her best ever Christmas present did not interrupt her holiday festivities.

?I am Lutheran, so we do Christmas Eve as a celebration and we opened the presents in the evening which was good because at midnight I was starting labour!? the proud mother said. ?So everything for our celebration was done and I came in on the morning on Sunday and labour was induced at noon.?

New father Ricardo Arruda was also very excited, she said.

The Christmas baby was Mrs. Arruda?s third child and Mr. Arruda?s second child ? both from former marriages, she said.

?But this is our first together,? she said.

She said it was a short labour, her water broke at midnight but no contractions started.

?I went to sleep thinking I would be woken by contractions. But when I woke up in the morning at 7 a.m. ? no contractions. I called the hospital and they said ? ?Why are you home?? So we came in and she was induced in about five hours,? she said. ?What can I say, babies come.?