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    ‘We nearly lost her’  LAINEY’S A LOCKDOWN MIRACLE

    Apr 25, 2021 3 minutes
    Leena Tailor

    After doing the maths on when she was conceived, Bayleigh and Tim Ballantine joke that their six-month-old daughter Lainey is quite possibly New Zealand’s first “lockdown baby”. But when the wee battler grows up to hear how she came into the world amid a pandemic, it will be just one of several wild stories her parents share about her arrival.

    Since finding out they were pregnant in May last year, the Ha¯wera couple have moved house twice, got married and finally brought Lainey

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