A four-year wait for a birthday: Area Leap babies prepare to celebrate their rare, special day
When Annie Anthony was born in Lowndes County on Feb. 29, 1936, her family did not go to the hospital.
Instead, Anthony said, they brought a midwife home and paid her with chickens.
As much as the family welcomed the baby, not everyone appreciated the birth date. Her grandmother, Anthony recalled, was “having a fit.”
Phoenix graces hospital as ‘leap year’ baby
Columbus parents Becky and Derrick Andrews did not realize they had planned to induce their second child’s birth on a leap day until after the little boy was born Monday. Still, they found the news pretty exciting.
Three ‘Leap Day’ babies welcomed at BMH-GT
It’s a phenomena that typically occurs every four years, the same four years in which the country elects a new president.