KAILUA-KONA — Not long after Hawaii celebrated the beginning of a new year, Kona residents Reina Aldorasi and Steven Combes welcomed their first son, Jayden Kainoa Combes, delivered a little more than four hours into 2017. ADVERTISING KAILUA-KONA — Not
KAILUA-KONA — Not long after Hawaii celebrated the beginning of a new year, Kona residents Reina Aldorasi and Steven Combes welcomed their first son, Jayden Kainoa Combes, delivered a little more than four hours into 2017.
The baby, born at 4:21 a.m., Sunday, is the first baby born on Hawaii Island in 2017, according to Lynn Scully, marketing and communications manager for North Hawaii Community Hospital.
“I’m super excited and super blessed to have my first son,” said Combes, 24. “It’s really a good blessing for me.”
Aldorasi, 19, said that when she got to the hospital on Dec. 30, her doctor figured her and Combes’ son could end up being the first baby of the new year.
“We were excited,” she said Tuesday.
Aldorasi added that her brother thought her son’s New Year’s Day birthday “was pretty cool.”
Combes said being the father of the island’s first baby in 2017, is “a big bonus.”
Scully said the hospital staff is thrilled for the new parents and are equally excited about being the hospital where 2017’s first baby was born on the island.
“There’s always a little bit of friendly competition locally among the hospitals,” she said.
Combes, who works at Wal-Mart in the store’s produce and bakery department, said he’s taking a couple of days off to take care of Aldorasi and Jayden, who is 20 inches long and weighs 7 pounds, 13 ounces.
Combes said mother and son are “doing good.”
