Staff members in Victoria Hospital’s pediatrics unit were leaping for joy on Monday.
There were at least two babies born on the very unique day.
Victoria Roberts was scheduled to be induced Monday morning, but her baby girl came out on her own.
“I’m just wondering when I am supposed to celebrate her birthday next year,” Roberts said.
Down the hall, Hanzel and Katrina Mejia celebrated the birth of their first born child, a baby boy.
The couple arrived at the hospital on Sunday expecting the baby to arrive March 2.
“At first we were kind of hesitant to have a baby on the 29th, but since my wife was having a lot of pain and contractions, she just wanted to have the baby anytime of the year,” Mejia said.
Kathan Mejia was born at 12:28 a.m. and weighed 6.3lbs.
Both mom and baby are doing fine.
Feb. 29 only comes once every four years, and has to do with the Gregorian calendar’s disparity with the solar system.
A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days.
So leap seconds – and leap years – are added as means of keeping clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons.
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