First born joy
A day before her mother was due to be induced, Kalani Gray became the first baby to be born in Orange for 2018.
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Parents Makayla Gettens and Hayden Gray of Blayney welcomed Kalani at 4.32am.
“It’s a bit exciting but then at the same time we didn’t expect it, I was getting induced the first thing tomorrow morning so it was a bit of a shock,” Miss Gettens said.
“I wasn’t due until Friday the fifth but she came a bit early.”
She said Mr Gray was just delighted Kalani had arrived, regardless of the date.
Weighing 3450 grams she is a sister for Aaliyah aged four and 16-month-old Levi.
“Levi doesn’t know what to think because he’s only little but Aaliyah is as excited as anything, she’s coming over to meet her,” Miss Gettens said.
She said she was brought by ambulance from Blayney directly to Orange Health Service where all her records were kept and her oldest daughter was also born.
Miss Gettens said her tests for all three children took place at the hospital and Levi would have been born there as well but he came too quickly and was a surprise home birth.
For the family, Kalani’s birth is just one new beginning the family is expecting from 2018.
“We are in the middle of moving [to another place in Blayney] and looking at the future,” Miss Gettens said.
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Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
