First Baby Of 2020 In Birmingham: Meet McKenna Rae

Birmingham AL

03 January, 2020

11:39 AM

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BIRMINGHAM, AL — A new year, a new decade and new life presented itself January 1, as 2020 began in earnest. So who can say years from now that they were the first person born in Birmingham in the new decade? Chances are good that little McKenna Rae, born at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham has that distinction. McKenna was born at 1:43 a.m. January 1, weighing 6 pounds, 8 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. Brookwood Baptist and UAB each reported babies born sometime after 4 a.m. January 1, which likely makes McKenna Rae Birmingham's first baby born in the new decade. The University of South Alabama Children's and Women's Hospital in Mobile reported a baby born at 12:37 a.m. Ollie Savanna Rutledge is reportedly the first baby born in Alabama in 2020, according to a WKRG report.