Nelson has its first baby of 2019.
Steffen and Andrea Ulrich welcomed their second child, a boy named Gunnar, on Thursday at 4:01 a.m. in a home birth, according to the Interior Health Authority.
Gunnar didn’t have to wait long for a new friend.
At 5:28 a.m. Thursday, Sage Laboucan and Blue Netherelift had their second child, a boy named Indie Rain, at Kootenay Lake Hospital.
The first baby born in B.C. was to a couple in New Westminster at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1.