Once she decided to make her entrance, Cloquet's first baby of 2022 didn't waste any time. Rowyn Oak Jubie was born at 11 p.m. Jan. 2 at Community Memorial Hospital, less than an hour after her mother and dad arrived at the hospital.

"It was quick and intense," said mother Sara Haverkamp. "There wasn't even time for pain meds."

Sara and Rowyn's dad, Jimmy Jubie Jr., had been trying to get pregnant for 10 years. When Haverkamp's daughter, 14-year-old Jayda, hit age 12, they sort of gave up. And then it happened, right in the middle of a pandemic.

"I got my second Covid shot and three months...