BS: Leap babies

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: Noreen
Date: 01 Mar 16 - 05:39 PM

Why would anyone want to do either(any) of those things, Nigel?

Everyone involved is purely interested in delivering the baby safely at the time the baby decides, unless problems arise in which case the baby is whipped out as quickly as (safely) possible.

The date of birth is only of interest when the birth has happened.

My newly-qualified midwife daughter is rather pleased to have delivered a leap baby 😊

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 16 - 01:21 PM

Khaled Hadj Brahim was born in 1960 on February 29. He is a native of Oran, Algeria, and as a young singer was known as Cheb Khaled; he and his generation of singers and songwriters called their music "rai." Some of these performers, along with recording producers who also became local celebrities by making records with them, have been casualties of "les integristes," the Islamic fundamentalists in North Africa. Hadj Brahim got out in one piece and is raising a family in France.
In an interview, Hadj Brahim joked that having a birthday every four years is more economical than having an "anniversaire" every year.

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: JHW
Date: 01 Mar 16 - 05:58 AM

Back to Mike's original question.
When I was a bairn one of the women in the village claimed to be but a 12 yr old though was near 50.
Born on 29th Feb she had only had twelve birthdays...

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 29 Feb 16 - 07:16 AM

Scrub that about being on a promise. Looks like I'll be on my tod stuck in a hotel in bloody Brussells. Happy soddin' birthday tomorrow Musket. ☹️

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 29 Feb 16 - 05:28 AM

Also Frederick, hero of The Pirates of Penzance.

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 29 Feb 16 - 02:50 AM

"Little Orphan Annie" is credited with being born on February 29th....which is the reason she ages so slow.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 29 Feb 16 - 02:39 AM

We let nature take its course unless intervention is required for the clinical safety of mother or child. No doctor or nurse wants striking off the register and facing both criminal and civil legal action, and neither do the board of the hospital.

My birthday is 1 March. Not a leap year one but it does mean waiting till tomorrow till being on a promise.

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 07:56 PM

Nigel, why would it matter to them ?

Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 07:52 PM

This brings up a subject I've wondered about.
If a woman is due to deliver on 28th/29th Feb, or 1st March, do the hospitals try to encourage 29/Feb birthdays, either by early induction of babies due on 1st March, or delaying births due on 28th Feb,
Or do they try to delay (or induce) the birth so that it doesn't occur on Feb 29th
Or do they let nature take its course?

Subject: BS: Leap babies
From: Mike in Brunswick
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 01:40 PM

Anyone here born on Feb. 29? If so, when do you celebrate your birthday in those other three years?

Mike