Leap Squared
As Leap mom has Leap baby. Awwwww. Boston Herald.
“I’d really like to know the odds of this happening,” said a beaming Christine Cullen, who gave birth to her as-yet-unnamed daughter at 4 p.m. at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Apparently better than you’d think. Via the ever erudite and observant Robert in comments, special delivery makes Dad’s 7th birthday. He’s also got your Leap libretto.
Topics: kids, moms and dads
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:03 am Comments (9) on Saturday, March 1, 2008
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March 1st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
“Special delivery makes dad’s seventh birthday” by Holly Zachariah in the COLUMBUS DISPATCH on Saturday, March 1, 2008:
Josh Eskey got quite a birthday present, a son, Jayce Dylan, to share leap day with. To his parents, Jayce Dylan Eskey is a little, brown-haired bundle of goodness. To the rest of the world, he is a statistical anomaly.
Jayce is a Leapling, you see, born on Feb. 29. His Daddy is a Leapling, too. And no, they didn’t plan it this way. Really. They swear.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Yesterday would have been Fredrick’s 38th birthday.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
“I’d really like to know the odds of this happening,” said a beaming Christine Cullen, who gave birth to her as-yet-unnamed daughter at 4 p.m. at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Looked at from one point of view, the probability of this particular birth is 1.
Because it happened!
But if a leap mother conceives on some day of the pre-leap year’s June or early July, the “odds of this happening,” while less than one, are really not bad.
Jamie Irons
March 1st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
My brother had to wait 60 years to turn 15. The difference in our ages is (me -14 months/4).
BTW, don’t wish him a happy birthday, instead, wish him a speedy recovery. He got bit by Spring.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
And injected by same (Spring) with a whole bunch of little bugs.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
About 1 in 2,134,521. (There are 365*4+1=1461 days in four years, so around 1 in 1461 births happen on 29 Feb. The chance that someone born on 29 Feb has a 29 Feb child is then 1 in 1461*1461, thus 1 in 2.134,521). Or, if you’d rather, about 0.00000047.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
About 1 in 2,134,521
It was a double-layered leap year for a Needham family who welcomed a 6-pound, 6-ounce baby girl into the world yesterday on the mother’s quadrennial birthday.
“I’d really like to know the odds of this happening,” said a beaming Christine Culle…
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
I wonder how many babies are born during the shift from daylight saving time in the fall? If you were born at 2:30 am, you’d be entitled to two birthdays a year, at least occasionally.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
(Oops, make that 1:30 am.)