TWELVE hours and 32 minutes into 2014 the date January 1 became one that Annalise Gallo and Nathan Johnson will never forget.
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Their son William Allan Johnson was the first baby born in Nowra this year.
Baby William arrived a few days late but his mother said that just made his birthday a little more special.
“I was four days overdue and on my way to hospital to be induced,” she said.
“It was on the way to hospital that I started to have contractions.
“Then at 12.32 in the afternoon I had him.
“The night before I celebrated New Year’s Eve with a barbecue at home, but I was too tired to stay up until midnight,” Ms Gallo said.
The Nowra couple said it didn’t take them too long to settle on a name as William was the one name they both agreed on.
And perhaps there was a royal influence in 2013, because William was the most popular boy’s name chosen by Australian parents.
At birth baby William weighed 3538 grams and was 53 cm long.
He is a brother for 16-month-old Hailey and a great grandson for Shirley Johnson from Cumnock.
