Meet the Interior’s first babies born in the new year

Interior parents are celebrating the first babies born in the new year across the valley.

A baby girl who doesn't yet have a name was the first baby born in the Interior Health Authority.

Her parents are Ashley and Tyler Robinson and she arrived Jan. 1 at Kelowna General Hospital at 1:22 a.m. weighing eight pounds, 10 ounces. She also has an older sister, Emma, who is two, according to the health authority.

Adalee was the first baby born in Kamloops' Royal Inland Hospital of the new year weighing eight lbs one oz, and she was the second baby born in Interior Health, at 1:47 a.m. to Christa and Mason Romeo. She has two older brothers, Dawson, three and Gray, who is two.

Vernon Jubilee Hospital welcomed baby Rose to the world at 2:37 a.m., making her the first baby to be born in Vernon's hospital.

The baby girl weighed seven lbs, six oz. to parents Davanna and David Dawson. Rose has a five-year-old brother Logan and sister Aurora who are twins. The family lives in Sicamous, according to Interior Health.

At Penticton Regional Hospital, parents Beant and Manpreet Brar of Osoyoos welcomed a baby girl Jan. 1 at 6:52 a.m. weighing eight lbs three oz. She has a six-year-old brother.

A baby born in a Montreal hospital may have been the first Canadian newborn of 2021.

The Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital said Friday that a boy named Arthur was born precisely at midnight.

READ MORE: First Canadian babies of 2021 born as the clock struck midnight

– With files from The Canadian Press

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