The first baby blanket of 2018 in Nelson was pink.
A girl born at 8:36 a.m. on Tuesday at Kootenay Lake Hospital is the West Kootenay’s New Year Baby. She escaped from the womb before another girl was born at 6:47 p.m. the same day at Trail’s Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.
The province’s first baby, also a girl, was born in Surrey shortly after midnight on Monday.