As you all know today is February 29, which only happens every four years, when we are in a leap year. That is precisely why it is one of the days when less people would want to be born, especially because they cannot celebrate how God sends their birthday, and that is that in the absence of 29, they have to celebrate it on March 1 (some on 28), when It's not really the day they were born. This means that many hospitals do their best not to schedule births on days like today, and that is why we can say that February 29 is the day when you will hardly have a scheduled C-section or induction.
Four million people turn today
It is estimated, according to La Tercera, that just over 4 million people were born on February 29. They seem to be many, but in reality they are very few if we compare them with the total world population. To see it a little clearer, only one in 1,469 people is born on February 29.
Children without birthdays
It is not a drama, really, but it is something that parents just don't like: having a baby who can only turn one in four years. Therefore they are the same parents those who try to have a caesarean section or a scheduled delivery performed on March 28 or March 1.
With the passage of time, seeing that parents do not want, it is tried to avoid it if possible, from the hospitals, although in cases of emergency, obviously, the health of the baby and the mother is more important than the day he is born .
Do you know someone who turns years today?
I do, a co-worker, and I have the impression that she is not particularly funny. Or that, or when we have joked about it (that of "how old are you really?") Has put the typical face of "is that they have asked me so many times that it is no longer funny."
I don't know how a little boy can live it, if he could notice the lack of a real day to celebrate his birthday (because by celebrating it equally, even if it's another day, he doesn't lose what he could miss most, his cake, his party and the gifts), but honestly, it would seem funny to me, maybe even special, to be one of the people whose birthday appears every four years.
What do you think?
