First baby of 2020 to receive gift basket

To celebrate the first baby born at Columbus Regional Hospital in 2020, Child Abuse Prevention of Bartholomew County has teamed up with local businesses to put together a basket full of goodies to give to the baby’s family.

The council, a division of Family Service, Inc., started gifting the baskets in 2019 after noticing that the tradition of celebrating babies born on New Year’s Day had slowly diminished, said Raina Jones, CAP Council co-chair.

The goal of the basket is to promote child and family well-being and healthy parenting.

For more on this story, see Tuesday’s Republic.