Posted on 03/02/2020 6:21:50 PM PST by Coleus
This Sunset Park family is growing by leaps and bounds!
Lindsay and Dane Demchak were all set to throw a birthday party Saturday for their son Omri, who was born Feb. 29, 2016, the last Leap Year. But that soiree was put on hold when the 31-year-old stay-at-home mom unexpectedly gave birth Saturday morning, four days early, to a 7-pound, 2-ounce baby girl at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn.
“We’re the double Leap Year family!” a beaming Lindsay Demchak boasted from her hospital bed as she cradled a swaddled Scout on her right arm. “We don’t believe in superstition. We are thankful to God,” a beaming Dane Demchak, 31, said.
“I guess He [God] thought it would be funny,” Lindsay quipped. “My parents can’t believe it. My brother called and said, ‘You gotta go on ‘Ellen.’ This is unreal,” Dane, a coffee roaster and community activist said. Omri’s due date was Feb. 29, 2016. The couple, knowing it was Leap Day, joked at the time that there was “no way” he would be born on Feb. 29. Omri was indeed born that day at 1 p.m. at Maimonides Hospital in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
“We joked about it. What if it happens again?” Dane recalled. And then it did! It’s crazy. It still hasn’t set in. We’re very ecstatic,” he said. The Demchaks and Lindsay’s parents went out to Gino’s restaurant in Bay Ridge Friday night to celebrate the birthday of Lindsay’s mom.
After returning home from a chicken parm dinner, the couple put their son to bed, put up decorations for Omri’s party and readied for bed. However, Scout would have none of that. Lindsay started experiencing contractions shortly after midnight.
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I don’t know why human minds, like mine :), can’t just accept coincidences with such ridiculous odds of occurring.
It’s news because it almost never happens. That’s all.
But it’s gonna mean something!! :)
A most ingenious paradox.
1 chance in 2,134,521.
You save a lot of money on birthdays!
They will save a fortune on birthday parties.
Didn’t see your post before I posted. Lol
Practically twins.
Luckily it wasn’t the day before. Now they can wear their hand-me-downs.
A character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance was supposed to be apprenticed to a pilot, but his hard-of-hearing nurse had him apprenticed to a pirate until his 21st birthday. Unfortunately for him, his birthday was February 29th so he would not reach his 21st birthday until he was 84 years old.
If I’d had any control over the day I was born, Feb 29th would have been it. I’d only be 13 now. Sadly, I’d still be too young to drive.
Those kids may have super powers....
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