Revealed: Winner of Stanthorpe’s cutest 2021 baby crowned

It was a fierce competition for the title, but the final votes have been tallied and it’s time to reveal your winner! Meet your cutest 2021 baby and the gorgeous bubs rounding out the top five here:

The winner of the competition for the title of Stanthorpe’s cutest 2021 baby has been decided, and the newly-crowned bub is continuing a family tradition.

Harper Gunnlaugsson has been voted by Border Post readers as the most gorgeous bub born in 2021.

Proud mum Teah Gunnlaugsson said it was not the first time her babies had been voted the cutest in the region, with her older boys Ryder and Grayson chosen as the 2019 winners.

Stanthorpe's cutest baby – Harper Gunnlaugsson, five months

“Harper is very happy and bubbly, she is always smiling and loves attention from everybody, and she is obsessed with her brothers,” she said.

“My husband works a lot during the week and I work weekends, so we like to get out together at least once a week and take advantage of any time together we can.

“On good weather days, we take the boys and ride their bikes with them, and we usually take Harper with us.”

She said the greatest change to pregnancy and childbirth under Covid was the constant changes in restrictions at hospitals and medical facilities.

“The pregnancy itself was not so different, but getting to the hospitals, it was a lot more work there,” she said.

“It was the threat of not being able to have my partner in there with me with lockdowns, shutdowns and stuff like that.

“He was eventually able to be, but it was just the stress of not knowing.”

With Harper now almost six months old and happily making her way through life, Teah said she and husband Guy had a simple hope for their daughter as she grew up.

“We just want her to have the life she wants to have, and to have a voice of her own to stand up for herself against anyone,” she said.

These were the other gorgeous babies who rounded out the top five rankings:

#2. Theo Debnam, three months

Stanthorpe's cutest baby – Theo Debnam, three months

#3. Maycee Hill, 10 months

Stanthorpe's cutest baby – Maycee Hill, 10 months

#4. Oliver Burns, nine months

Stanthorpe's cutest baby – Oliver Burns, nine months

#5. Lachlan Parsons, 10 months

Stanthorpe's cutest baby – Lachlan Parsons, 10 months