LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Hello, baby! Two Lexington hospitals have announced their first births of 2026, a boy and girl.
At 1:31 a.m. Thursday, Kennedy Rayne made her appearance to parents Dalton and Hadlee Ritchie of Winchester at the Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East.
Autumn and Chayse Haggins of Willisburg also welcomed a little boy, Meeko Ray, just after 4 a.m. Thursday morning at Baptist Health Lexington. Both Autumn and Chayse, as well as their two other children, were born at the hospital.
