New arrivals: Pandemic baby boom puts pressure on BHS maternity ward

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May 6 2021 - 5:30am
NEW ARRIVAL: Fatumata Kamara with her newnorn son (currently unnamed) and midwives Harriet Kied (middle) and Maree Buchanan on International Midwives Day at Ballarat Health Services. Picture: Adam Trafford
NEW ARRIVAL: Fatumata Kamara with her newnorn son (currently unnamed) and midwives Harriet Kied (middle) and Maree Buchanan on International Midwives Day at Ballarat Health Services. Picture: Adam Trafford

Nine months after Victoria entered its second COVID lockdown, a baby boom is under way with record numbers of babies being born in Ballarat.

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Michelle Smith

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