B.C.’s first baby of 2024 has arrived, and she is nothing if not prompt.
Born at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster and weighing six pounds 14 ounces, Taylor Stutsky arrived at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day.
Parents Julia Goryn and Travis Stutsky say they are thrilled to welcome their first child.
“You know, it’s surreal. We were just so happy to have her come out,” father Stutsky said. “We went to Prague to do (in vitro fertilization) to make her. And it’s been a long journey. So we’re just happy to have a happy, healthy baby.”
The couple says Taylor was actually due Jan. 20, but following complications, Goryn was induced on Dec. 30.
“We never expected to have a New Year’s baby,” Goryn said.
As for the name, Goryn says they wanted a name with the same initials as Stutsky, and Taylor just resonated with them.
Interior Health welcomed its first baby of the year at 12:40 a.m. Navy Shae came into the world at Kelowna General Hospital, weighing seven pounds seven ounces.
Shortly after, Northern Health welcomed the region’s newest resident. Baby Holland was born at 1:04 a.m. at University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George to parents Amy and Jaden Janzen. The little girl weighed six pounds, eight ounces.
A little over an hour later, parents Nadia and Alex welcomed Ferguson “Gus” Kenneth Ouellet Mitchell at Victoria General Hospital in the Vancouver Island Health Authority. Gus was born at 2:06 a.m. and weighed seven pounds and eight ounces. The health authority says his parents and big sister are thrilled.
Vancouver Coastal Health has yet to announce the region’s first child of 2024.
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