"Meet Portland's New Year's Newborn: The City's First Baby of 2024"

Portland, Oregon, celebrated the arrival of its first baby of 2024, born to parents Pooja Kotadia and Rounak "Ron" Gandhi at 12:12 a.m. on New Year's Day at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital. The baby girl weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces, and her birth was followed by other newborns in the area throughout the early hours of the day. Both parents work in the medical field, with Kotadia being a medical director and Gandhi a clinic manager.