Two sisters from New York had a double celebration this leap year after welcoming their babies on the same extra calendar day.
Siblings Marissa Quinones and Makiya Anthony of Dunkirk, New York, gave birth to their babies on February 29 in one of the rarest looks imaginable, making the newborn cousins Leap Day birthday twins.
Quinones was scheduled to give birth on February 29, while sister Anthony unexpectedly joined her in welcoming her baby the same day after a scheduled surgical appointment.
“It was supposed to be just a regular checkup at the OB, just my checkup,” Anthony told local media outlet WKBW. – Then they told me that I would give birth to my child.
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The sisters ended up going to two different hospitals to give birth, the paper reported.
Quinones explained that initially she and her sister were “just a week apart” in their due dates – leaving their grandmother convinced they would give birth at the same time.
“My grandmother kept saying … we’d get them the same day,” Quinones told WKBW.
Quinones shared with the magazine how excited she is that her child is having a special birthday. “My boyfriend first told me to change the day and I told him ‘No’… I think that’s unique,” she said.
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According to the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies, the odds of a person being born on February 29 are one in 1,461.
The sisters’ rare experience of having both their children born on a leap day made them “closer,” Anthony said. She added to WKBW: “Me and my cousins, we’re very close in age and that made us closer. So I think [the babies are] it’s also going to be super close.”
Meanwhile, the siblings’ mother Cherie Coy said she went through a state of “panic” when she heard her daughters were going into labor at the same time. “I try to be there for all of them. I knew right away what was in store for me this weekend,” she told WKBW.
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After the babies arrive, she said there will be a special celebration for their birthdays.
Every four years, Dunkirk is going to be a crazy party for a bunch of kids, Coy continued. “Everybody knows our whole family is just kids, kids, kids. Bring your kids.”
As for how kids will react to their special birthdays in the future, Coy added, “As kids get older, they’re not going to like having to wait another day for their birthday. So I think the 28th is the day.”
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