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It was just one minute after the delivery-ward nurses counted down the last seconds of 2016 that Joy Lol Duop made her entrance.

Weighing six pounds and 12 ounces, Edmonton’s 2017 New Year’s baby was born at 12:01 a.m. Sunday to proud and grateful parents Nyadin Nyoak and Lol Duop at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women.

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“We were so happy, we gave her the name Joy,” father Duop said of the new addition.

Joy is Nyoak and Duop’s sixth child, and the only one to arrive on her due date. Joy’s fortuitous timing earned the family a gift basket full of diapers and baby supplies, for which they’re grateful.

“I was jumping up and down when the lady was telling us the news. It was nice,” Nyoak said, sitting in a hospital waiting room with Joy nestled in a white tuque and blankets in the crook of her arm.

The couple’s five other children, who range from age 7 to 14, were delighted to hear the news, with the exception of one pragmatic son who pointed out their eight-member family will no longer fit in one vehicle.