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28 Feb 16 - 01:40 PM (#3775562) Subject: BS: Leap babies From: Mike in Brunswick Anyone here born on Feb. 29? If so, when do you celebrate your birthday in those other three years? Mike |
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28 Feb 16 - 07:52 PM (#3775630) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: Nigel Parsons 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? |
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28 Feb 16 - 07:56 PM (#3775631) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: GUEST,HiLo Nigel, why would it matter to them ? |
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29 Feb 16 - 02:39 AM (#3775656) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: GUEST,Musket 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. |
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29 Feb 16 - 02:50 AM (#3775660) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: GUEST,.gargoyle "Little Orphan Annie" is credited with being born on February 29th....which is the reason she ages so slow. Sincerely, Gargoyle |
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29 Feb 16 - 05:28 AM (#3775698) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: Keith A of Hertford Also Frederick, hero of The Pirates of Penzance. |
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29 Feb 16 - 07:16 AM (#3775714) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: GUEST,Musket 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. ☹️ |
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01 Mar 16 - 05:58 AM (#3775948) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: JHW 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... |
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01 Mar 16 - 01:21 PM (#3776088) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: keberoxu 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. |
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01 Mar 16 - 05:39 PM (#3776125) Subject: RE: BS: Leap babies From: Noreen 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 😊 |