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<p>SCRANTON &#8212; The very first baby at the new Childbirth Center at Geisinger Community Medical Center was born recently &#8212; and she belongs to a Wilkes-Barre Township couple.</p><p>Kayla Stair, 22, and Joey Donovan, 27, welcomed their first daughter, baby Jayla, into the world Sunday evening.</p><p>Donovan and Stair have been together for the better part of five years, first meeting while both were in high school, reconnecting again later. The rest, as they say, is history, but history gets a new chapter with the birth of baby Jayla.</p><p>Stair said that she wanted to go to the new Scranton facility when she first heard about it, but she didn&#8217;t think it would be open when it was time for Jayla to come into the world.</p><p>It was a twist of fate that allowed for her to become the first baby born in the hospital.</p><p>&#8220;I was actually supposed to be induced (in Wilkes-Barre),&#8221; she said &#8212; noting that she went through a nearly 30 hour labor process. &#8220;But they didn&#8217;t have any beds.&#8221;</p><p>So, it was off to Scranton.</p><p>The Childbirth Center opened only three days before Jayla&#8217;s birth, making it the first time the Geisinger Community Medical Center offered maternity care since 2007, before Geisinger acquired the hospital in 2012. The new $15 million center features eight delivery and postpartum suites, featuring state-of-the-art technology.</p><p>The hospital claims it&#8217;s designed to make mothers as &#8220;at home&#8221; as they possibly can be, and it features both OB/GYNs and midwives for those intending to pursue natural births.</p><p>Stair said she was glad to have been able to come to the hospital, saying she believes in Geisinger&#8217;s standard of care, saying she felt it was better than care she saw other family members received. She also noted she&#8217;s glad she didn&#8217;t have to drive all the way to Danville.</p><p>&#8220;Everything was perfect,&#8221; she said.</p><p>Jayla was born at a healthy 5 pounds, 11 ounces. Soon, she&#8217;ll be heading home with her family.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll take it one day at a time,&#8221; Donovan said.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Kayla Stair holds her new baby Jayla as the baby&#8217;s dad Joseph Donovan looks on at the new childbirth center in Geisinger Scranton.	 </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/web1_TTL101619Baby1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Kayla Stair holds her new baby Jayla as the baby&#8217;s dad Joseph Donovan looks on at the new childbirth center in Geisinger Scranton.	 </caption0><photoCredit0>Aimee Dilger | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div></div>
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New Geisinger Childbirth Center welcomes first baby to Wilkes-Barre Twp. couple