The next day, January 2, nada. Not one baby popped out. Toward the end of January 3, the first baby of the year was born.
By the end of the 4th, seven more babies had been born, with half a dozen on the 5th.
In the end, they didn’t want to risk having anything to do with 2020, joked Goulburn Valley Health maternity services manager Carmel Brophy.
“We were talking about it on the third, normally we have a New Year's baby,” she said.
The maternity ward averages one to three births a day, but having a stretch of two days without a birth wasn't something Ms Brophy could remember happening often, especially not in the New Year period.
She said hospital staff didn't even realise the baby born on the third was the first of the year.
It was a quiet festive season for the maternity ward, with just one baby born on Christmas Day and none on Boxing Day.
“We often say birthing is feast or famine . . . we like a steady pace but we can adapt to whatever's coming in.”
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