Taimaririkura i hikitia te ata o Toi Stokes
BORN: JUNE 3, 2023
WEIGHT: 4.2KG
At 5am on a Saturday morning in June last year, Seven Sharp reporter Te Rauhiringa Brown awoke, nine days overdue with her third son, knowing she would soon meet her baby, Taimaririkura i hikitia te ata o Toi Stokes.
Waking her partner, golf coach and actor Mauri Oho Stokes, Te Rauhiringa said the words they had both been patiently waiting for, “Kua tae te wā” – the time has arrived.
“My kuia [grandmother] had gone into hospital, so we had my 10-month-old niece Hawaiki sleeping over and we have this joke that she called our son into the world because he was jealous of her getting all the attention,” laughs Te Rauhiringa, 31.
From the moment the TV reporter – who also presents the weather for and her actor beau found out they were expecting, they began to plan a pregnancy
