Leap Year babies

The 29th February is a special day, so can you imagine how amazing it would be to be one of the few Leap Year babies. So if you’re one of those lucky ones, how and when do you celebrate? Here are some facts about leap year babies.

1. The chances of being born on a Leap Year are 1 in 1,461.

2. People born on Leap Year can be called leaplings or leapers

3. A Surrey based family have beaten 3.11 billion to 1 odds to have 3 generations all born on 29th February

4. The poet Lord Byron was born on 29th February

5. Frederic, one of the main characters in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance” is born on 29th February. There’s even a song about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WTSlr_WRgo

6. Leap Year Day is also Saint Oswald’s Day – an archbishop of York who died on 29th February 992

7. Celebrating your birthday on a non leap year can be a little tricky for leapers. In the UK their officially recognised birthday is on 1st March, in New Zealand it’s 28th February but in America it depends on which state you live in!

8. In 2100 we’ll skip Leap Year, making babies born in 2096 wait 8 years for their first real birthday.

9. Britain’s oldest known Leaper, Margaret Wade was 105 (25 nearly 26) when she passed away in 2017

10. Sweden and Finland added an extra Leap Day to February in 1712 to help catch up the Julian calendar with the new Gregorian calendar, therefore creating a unique 30th February.

Is your baby due on 29th February? Would you welcome that or not? If you or your little one’s birthday is on Leap Year, how do you celebrate? Let me know in the comments below.
If you’d like to a photo session for your little leapling, you can contact me here
https://hushabye-photography.co.uk/contact/