Baby Born On Leap Year Day

“It’s cool meeting people with Leap Day birthdays, because then there’s that instant connection”, DiFranco said. After all, it’s not every day you turn 25. She says she survived the pitfalls of primary school.

Since Leap Day only happens once every four years, it creates a special challenge for the select few Leap Day babies. “If it’s not a leap year, I don’t celebrate”.

Whose idea was a leap year? You do the math. Some of them make a big deal when it comes to the magic date of 29 February and have different traditions and superstitions. It was a big surprise to both of us.

At 4:15 p.m., we were married.

When do you celebrate when it’s not a leap year? It certainly feels longer!

Lindsay Dexter said: “It’s my son James Hall’s 4th birthday – his first proper birthday. I don’t feel like I’m at a disadvantage; I feel it’s like a tool to make people laugh”.

Celebrating your birthday on February 29 means you’ve probably spent your life dealing with a number of conundrums only a very small percentage of the population can relate to.

On Leap Day, I’ll be turning seven years old.

“When I turned eight, my daughter turned eight”, Shirley Lutz recalls. Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. had the bright idea of just adding a day every fourth year. And she’s not alone either.

When asked if she had any advice for parents who have leap year children, Duncan said to acknowledge every birthday.

This year’s birthday will also be my golden birthday – sort of.

“My mother usually made a birthday cake for me on that day”, she said of her leap year birthdays. Yet she didn’t have any reservations about what having Justin a day early could mean for his future birthdays.

I am now a junior in college, though I have only had four birthdays.

“Because I don’t have a party for four years, I always look forward to it”, Bridget said.

For non-Leaplings, it is extremely hard to imagine the disappointment that stems from looking at a calendar and not seeing a box for your birthday – there’s no area to write your special day on the calendar, but everyone else gets a box. Are you are five-year-old leapling, who has lived for 20 years, or a 20-year-old who is expecting a telegram from the Queen!? “Here’s a photo of me celebrating for my 18th a couple years back”. Generally, it works, but I wish more people would follow this example. “I was thinking of keeping it in February”. This is a leaper’s day of joy, their real birthday, but being a “leap baby” can be as problematic as it is exciting.

The chance of being born on Leap Day is about one in 1,461, giving any Grand Valley State University student a 0.2 percent chance of having a Leap Day birthday. “I haven’t met another leapling since”. He is be celebrating his first real birthday.

– During leap years, George Armstrong Custer fought the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), the Titanic sank (1912), Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity (1752) and gold was discovered in California (1848). At least that’s what he thinks.

Do your family make an extra fuss of you every four years? And at the end of 100 years, the calendar would be off by about 24 days. He sometimes uses it against us, saying he’s only three years old.

Though being born on a Leap Day doesn’t really seem to interrupt day-to-day operations for Laker Leap Day babies, it certainly allows for those students to win every “interesting fact” competition on the first day of class each semester.

And don’t forget to tell us how you are planning to celebrate this year.