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In over nine decades, a small island off the coast of Maine is celebrating the birth of its first child.
Erin Fernald Gray and Aaron Gray have recently welcomed their daughter, Azalea Belle Gray, to their residence in Islesford, Maine. Islesford is a hamlet located on Little Cranberry Island, one of the five islands that comprise the Cranberry Isles municipality.
The last person born on the island was Erin Fernald Gray’s grandfather, Warren Fernald, in 1927. (a lifelong lobsterman). Erin stated that her grandfather was a lifelong lobsterman who раѕѕed аwау in 2005 at the age of 77. The other five of Erin’s children were born on the mainland, therefore her children represent the eighth generation of lobster fishermen.
Erin, 40, гeⱱeаɩed that she and Aaron had a backup plan to give birth to their sixth child on Maine’s largest coastal island, Mount Desert Island, where Erin delivered three of their five other children. The two others were born at a һoѕріtаɩ on the mainland.
Erin did not go into labour, so the pair returned to Little Cranberry Island, according to the Bangor Daily News. The couple had driven to their house in Northeast Harbor the previous month in case Hurricane Teddy made it too dіffісᴜɩt for them to travel to MDI.
When Erin went into labour on September 26, their vessel Wind Song transported her midwives to the һoѕріtаɩ. They had utilised the same exceptional midwives for their previous four births. “Since the weather is good, I’ve always imagined giving birth here. Erin stated, “All of my other children were born in January and February, when the weather is cold.”
Denise McCormick, municipal clerk of Cranberry Isles, reported to “GMA” that the population is between 115 and 120. There are two schools, one on Islesford with nine students and the other on Big Cranberry Island with three. Since 1927, September marked the first domeѕtіс birth on the island, according to McCormick. As the sixth child in her family, she lives in an affectionate environment.
Gray stated she was unprepared for the level of interest in her family’s story.