A VILLAGE where for 10 years only girls were born has finally seen the arrival of a baby boy.

The tiny village of Miejsce Odrzaaskie in southern Poland, which has a population of just 300, made global headlines last year after the region’s mayor offered a reward to the first couple to give birth to a boy.

Now, 10 months on, the arrival of baby Bartek has sent the village wild. Delighted mayor Rajmund Frischko told The First News: “This is wonderful news, especially at this time when we are all dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

“Every birth is special, but this one offers all of us hope for the future.”

Proud mother Anna Milek told local media the birth, which happened May 2, was a double miracle following a life-saving operation. She said: “The operation brought me back to life and made a double miracle happen. A double miracle, because Bartek is not only a boy but a boy from Miejsce Odrzanskie. Bartek needs a lot of attention, closeness and sensitivity from me. Just like any new-born child.”

The birth comes as a huge relief to the small agricultural community with the area suffering from population decline as young women moved away to find partners and start their lives.

The village came to global attention last year after the unusual series of girl-only births aroused interest in the Polish media when the village sent an all-girl team to a regional volunteer firefighting competition, an event usually dominated by boys.

The village was then flooded with advice on how to conceive a boy with one doctor insisting that women who wanted to have a boy should have a diet rich of calcium.

Others suggested a complicated procedure that involved measuring the women’s internal temperature at different intervals and statisticians calculated that the likelihood of such a long run of girl births is one in over 4,000.(SD-Agencies)