From left, Louise Estes, holds her new-born daughter Jade as her sons Xavier, 8, and Remington, 4, sit nearby at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah, on February 29, 2012. Photo: Mark Johnston, Daily Herald.
In one of the rarest achievements in family planning, a Utah woman has given birth on a third consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set by a Norwegian family in the 1960’s.
David and Louise Estes’ daughter Jade was born February 29 in Provo, four years after their son Remington was born on February 29, 2008, and eight years after their son Xavier was born February 29, 2004. Jade was already five days overdue when doctors induced labor and managed to hit the elusive date.
The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is the Henriksen family of Norway, which logged February 29th births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records.
All those kids may belong to one of the most unique clubs on Earth, but I still feel sympathy for anyone born on February 29th.
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