Mother born on Leap Day gives birth to baby on Leap Day

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A mom born on Leap Day has given birth to a baby on the identical day 40 years later.

On Thursday 29 February, Dr Kai Sun – an assistant professor of medication and a rheumatologist at Duke Health – rang in her milestone birthday welcoming daughter, Chloe, with husband Michael Paik. The baby lady is the third little one for the couple, who already share Charis, 5, and Caleb, three.

“My husband and I were just saying how cool it would be if she were born on the same day as my birthday. And somehow, it happened,” the 40-year-old physician advised Good Morning America. She added that baby Chloe arrived at 5.12 am, three days after her 26 February due date, weighing six kilos and 13 ounces.

“She was breathing fast initially when she was born so they took her to the nursery for a little bit to see the pediatrician but everything checked out and she’s peacefully sleeping,” Dr Sun defined, noting that she and her daughter are doing “well.”

Giving birth to Chloe on Leap Day wasn’t the one lucky factor to occur for the couple; Chloe was additionally their rainbow baby after struggling a miscarriage one 12 months in the past. The being pregnant was tough for Dr Sun, who turned unwell and skilled a probably deadly fall throughout her third trimester.

“There were some little things along the way,” Dr Sun defined to the outlet. “There was some abnormal findings on the initial ultrasound that we were nervous about. And then I had Covid. And I fell on my belly in [my] third trimester. There are just some small things that happened that made us a little nervous but everything turned out well at the end.”

The mom-of-three deliberate on resting for her birthday, hoping to be discharged on Friday 1 March and keen to introduce her new daughter to her older siblings. “I look forward to taking her home with me and have her meet the rest of the family, my parents and her siblings,” Sun stated. “And we’ll have cake, of course.”

Celebrations are to ensure that the times to come however above all else, Dr Sun advised the outlet that she hopes that her daughter will develop up figuring out simply how particular and liked she is.

“We had a miscarriage almost exactly a year ago and so that makes her more special,” she defined. “I just hope that she knows that she’s special, not just because she has a special birthday.”

Chloe wasn’t the one Leap Day baby – also called a “Leapling” – at Duke University Hospital. Officials advised CBS that one other baby was born of their hospital Thursday, born at 8.54 am.